Viverravinae
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.
Viverravinae | |
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skull of Viverravus minutus | |
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 |
Type genus | |
†Viverravus Marsh, 1872 | |
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