Africanictis Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Infraorder: | Aeluroidea |
Genus: | † Africanictis Morales et al., 1998 |
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Africanictis is an extinct genus of carnivorous cat-like mammals belonging to the infraorder Aeluroidea, endemic to Africa for approximately 11.42 million years, from 23.03 to 11.610 Ma, during the Miocene epoch. [1]
Africanictis is thought to have had an omnivorous—or more precisely hypercarnivorous to mesocarnivorous—diet. [2] [3]
Africanictis was named by Morales et al. (1998). It was assigned to Stenoplesictidae by Morlo et al. (2007). [4]
Meniscoessus is a genus of extinct multituberculates from the Upper Cretaceous Period that lived in North America.
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Cynodontia is a clade of eutheriodont therapsids that first appeared in the Late Permian, and extensively diversified after the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Mammals are cynodonts, as are their extinct ancestors and close relatives (Mammaliaformes), having evolved from advanced probainognathian cynodonts during the Late Triassic.
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