Didymictis

Didymictis; Temporal range: late Paleocene and middle Eocene
	Skull of Didymictis protenus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Superfamily:	†Viverravoidea
Family:	†Viverravidae
Subfamily:	†Didymictinae
Genus:	†Didymictis; Cope, 1875
Type species
	†Didymictis protenus; Cope, 1874
Species
	[see classification]
Synonyms
	synonyms of species: D. altidens: Viverravus altidens (Cope, 1880) ; ; D. dellensis: Protictis dellensis (Dorr, 1952) ; ; D. leptomylus: Viverravus leptomylus (Cope, 1880) ; ; D. protenus: Didymictis curtidens (Cope, 1882) ; Limnocyon protenus (Cope, 1874) ; Viverravus curtidens (Cope, 1882) ; Viverravus protenus ; ; D. proteus: Didymictis protenus proteus (Simpson, 1937) ; ;

Didymictis ("double weasel") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Didymictinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America and Europe from the late Paleocene to middle Eocene.

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