Didymictinae

Didymictinae Temporal range: 63.8–39.7  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early Paleocene - middle Eocene
skull of Didymictis protenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Superfamily:	† Viverravoidea
Family:	† Viverravidae
Subfamily:	† Didymictinae Flynn & Galiano, 1982 [1]
Type genus
† Didymictis Cope, 1875
Genera
† Bryanictis † Didymictis † Intyrictis † Pristinictis † Protictis (paraphyletic genus) † Raphictis Incertae sedis : † "Deltatherium" durini
Synonyms
Didymictida (Flynn & Galiano, 1982) Didymictidae (Flynn & Galiano, 1982)

Didymictinae ("double weasels") is an extinct subfamily of mammals from extinct family Viverravidae, that lived from the early Palaeocene to the middle Eocene in North America and Europe. ^[2]

Classification and phylogeny

Classification

• Subfamily: †Didymictinae(Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
  • Genus: † Bryanictis (MacIntyre, 1966)
    • †Bryanictis microlestes(Simpson, 1935)
    • †Bryanictis paulus(Meehan & Wilson, 2002)
    • †Bryanictis terlinguae(Standhardt, 1986)
  • Genus: † Didymictis (Cope, 1875)
    • †Didymictis altidens(Cope, 1880)
    • †Didymictis dellensis(Dorr, 1952)
    • †Didymictis leptomylus(Cope, 1880)
    • †Didymictis protenus(Cope, 1874)
    • †Didymictis proteus(Polly, 1997)
    • †Didymictis vancleveae(Robinson, 1966)
    • †Didymictis sp. [Erquelinnes, Hainaut, Belgium] (Dollo, 1909)
  • Genus: † Intyrictis (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
    • †Intyrictis vanvaleni(MacIntyre, 1966)
  • Genus: † Pristinictis (Fox & Youzwyshyn, 1994)
    • †Pristinictis connata(Fox & Youzwyshyn, 1994)
  • Genus: † Protictis (Matthew, 1937)
    • †Protictis agastor(Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
    • †Protictis haydenianus(Cope, 1882)
    • †Protictis minor(Meehan & Wilson, 2002)
    • †Protictis paralus(Holtzman, 1978)
    • †Protictis simpsoni(Meehan & Wilson, 2002)
    • †Protictis aprophatos(Flynn & Galiano, 1982)
  • Genus: † Raphictis (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
    • †Raphictis gausion(Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
    • †Raphictis iota(Scott, 2008)
    • †Raphictis machaera(Rankin, 2009)
    • †Raphictis nanoptexis(Rankin, 2009)
  • Incertae sedis :
    • † "Deltatherium" durini (Van Valen, 1978)

References

1. J. J. Flynn and H. Galiano. (1982.) "Phylogeny of Early Tertiary Carnivora, With a Description of a New Species of Protictis From the Middle Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming" American Museum Novitates 2725:1-64
2. McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-11012-9 . Retrieved 16 March 2015.