Fissipedia

Fissipedia Temporal range: 66.0–0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early Paleocene to present
Scientific classification (obsolete)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Fissipedia Blumenbach, 1791 [1]
Superfamilies
[see classification]
Synonyms
Fissipeda (Blumenbach, 1791) Fissipedina (Pearse, 1936) [2]

Fissipedia ("split feet") or land-dweling carnivorans is a former suborder of placental mammals comprising the largely land-based families of the order Carnivora. ^[3] In some former taxonomic classifications, Pinnipedia was treated as an suborder in order Carnivora alongside Fissipedia and Creodonta. ^[4] rather than as a subgroup of "dog-like" carnivorans.

Classification

Suborder: Fissipedia(Blumenbach, 1791) (land-dweling carnivorans) Superfamily: Canoidea (Waldheim, 1817) ("dog-like" carnivorans) Family: Canidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with dogs and amphicyonids as its members at that time] Family: Mustelidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with weasels, ferrets, badgers, otters and skunks as its members at that time] Family: Procyonidae (Gray, 1825) [a group with raccoons and red panda as its members at that time] Family: Ursidae (Waldheim, 1817) (bears) Superfamily: Feloidea (Waldheim, 1817) ("cat-like" carnivorans) Family: Felidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with cats, nimravids and genus Hyainailouros as its members at that time] Family: Hyaenidae (Grey, 1821) (hyenas) Family: Viverridae (Grey, 1821) [a group with civets and mongooses as its members at that time] Superfamily: † Miacoidea (Cope, 1880) Family: †Miacidae (Cope, 1880) [a group with representatives of families Miacidae and Viverravidae as its members at that time]

References

1. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1791.) "Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Vierte auflage." Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, xii+704+[33] pp., 3 pls.
2. Arthur Sperry Pearse (1936.) Zoological names. A list of phyla, classes, and orders, prepared for section F, American Association for the Advancement of Science American Association for the Advancement of Science
3. Ledje, C.; Arnason, U. (1996). "Phylogenetic analyses of complete cytochromeb genes of the order Carnivora with particular emphasis on the Caniformia". Journal of Molecular Evolution. 42 (2): 135–144. doi:10.1007/BF02198839. PMID   8919865.
4. Simpson, George Gaylord (1945). "The principles of classification and a classification of mammals". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 85: 350. hdl:2246/1104.