Viverravus

Viverravus; Temporal range: Middle Paleocene to Middle Eocene
	skull of Viverravus minutus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Superfamily:	†Viverravoidea
Family:	†Viverravidae
Subfamily:	†Viverravinae
Genus:	†Viverravus; Marsh, 1872
Type species
	†Viverravus gracilis; Marsh, 1872
Species
	[see classification]
Synonyms
	synonyms of genus: Triacodon (Marsh, 1871) ; Xiphacodon (Schlosser, 1890) ; Ziphacodon (Marsh, 1872) ; synonyms of species: V. gracilis: Didymictis dawkinsianus (Cope, 1881) ; Harpalodon vulpinus (Marsh, 1872) ; Triacodon fallax (Marsh, 1871) ; Viverravus dawkinsianus (Cope, 1881) ; Viverravus nitidus (Marsh, 1872) ; Viverravus vulpinus (Marsh, 1872) ; Ziphacodon ugatus (Marsh, 1872) ; Ziphacodon rugatus (Marsh, 1872) ; ; V. laytoni: Protictis laytoni (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985) ; Viverravus bowni (Gingerich, 1987) ; ; V. politus: Protictis schaffi (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985) ; Viverravus schaffi (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985) ; ;

Viverravus ("ancestor of Viverra") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Viverravinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America, Europe and Asia from the middle Paleocene to middle Eocene.

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