Viverravinae ("ancestors of viverrids") is an extinct subfamily of mammals from extinct family Viverravidae, that lived from the early Palaeocene to the middle Eocene in North America, Asia and Europe.[3]
| Viverravinae | |
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| skull of Viverravus minutus | |
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| lower jaw of Simpsonictis tenuis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Superfamily: | †Viverravoidea |
| Family: | †Viverravidae |
| Subfamily: | †Viverravinae Wortman & Matthew, 1899[1] |
| Type genus | |
| †Viverravus Marsh, 1872 | |
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Classification and phylogeny
Classification
- Subfamily: †Viverravinae (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
- Genus: †Simpsonictis (MacIntyre, 1962)
- †Simpsonictis jaynanneae (Rigby, 1980)
- †Simpsonictis pegus (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
- †Simpsonictis tenuis (Simpson, 1935)
- Genus: †Viverravus (Marsh, 1872)
- †Viverravus acutus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Viverravus gracilis (Marsh, 1872)
- †Viverravus lawsoni (Hooker, 2010)
- †Viverravus laytoni (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
- †Viverravus lutosus (Gazin, 1952)
- †Viverravus minutus (Wortman, 1901)
- †Viverravus politus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- †Viverravus rosei (Polly, 1997)
- †Viverravus sicarius (Matthew, 1909)
- †Viverravus sp. [V11141] (Meng, 1998)
- †Viverravus sp. [Locality Group 2, Washakie Basin, Wyoming] (Tomiya, 2021)
- Genus: †Viverriscus (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
- †Viverriscus omnivorus (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
- Genus: †Simpsonictis (MacIntyre, 1962)