Mioparadoxurus

Mioparadoxurus Temporal range: Late Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Viverridae
Subfamily:	Paradoxurinae
Genus:	† Mioparadoxurus Morales & Pickford, 2011
Species
Mioparadoxurus meiniMorales & Pickford, 2011 Mioparadoxurus microsAbbas et al., 2025

Mioparadoxurus is an extinct genus of paradoxurine that lived in South Asia during the Late Miocene.

Distribution

Mioparadoxurus meini, the type species, is known from the site of Hari Talyangar in India. ^[1] A second species, Mioparadoxurus micros, is known from the Dhok Pathan Formation of Pakistan. ^[2]

References

1. Morales, Jorge; Pickford, Martin (March–June 2011). "A new paradoxurine carnivore from the Late Miocene Siwaliks of India and a review of the bunodont viverrids of Africa" . Geobios . 44 (2–3): 271–277. Bibcode:2011Geobi..44..271M. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2011.02.001 . Retrieved 12 February 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
2. Abbas, Sayyed Ghyour; Grohé, Camille; Grossman, Ari; Mahmood, Khalid; Babar, Muhammad Adeeb; Khan, Muhammad Akbar (October 2025). "New fossil Asian palm civets (Carnivora, Viverridae) from the Siwaliks of Pakistan". Geobios . 92: 1–12. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2025.05.002 . Retrieved 5 October 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.