Proviverra

Proviverra Temporal range: 46.3–41.2  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Middle Eocene
Proviverra typica skull
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	† Hyaenodonta
Superfamily:	† Hyaenodontoidea
Clade:	† Proviverrinae
Genus:	† Proviverra Rutimeyer, 1862
Type species
†Proviverra typica Rutimeyer, 1862 [1]
Synonyms [2]
synonyms of genus: Prorhyzaena(Rütimeyer, 1891) [3] synonyms of species: P. typica: Prorhyzaena egerkingiae(Rütimeyer, 1891)

Proviverra ("before civet") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct clade Proviverrinae within extinct superfamily Hyaenodontoidea (in extinct order Hyaenodonta), that lived during the Middle Eocene in Europe. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

References

1. Rütimeyer, L. (1862.) "Eocaene Säugetiere aus dem Gebiet des Schweizerischen Jura." Neue Denkschriften der allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 19, 1–98.
2. J. Alroy (2002.) "Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals."
3. Rütimeyer L. (1891.) "Die eocäne Säugethier-Welt von Egerkingen. Abhandlungen der Schweizerischen Palaeontologischen Gesellschaft, 18, 1–153.
4. H. W. Matthes (1952.) "I. Abhandlung: Die Creodontier aus der mitteleozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltals (I. Part: The Creodonta from the Middle Eocene of Geiseltal)." Hallesches Jahrbuch für mitteldeutsche Erdgeschichte 1:201-240
5. "Proviverra". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
6. Morgane Dubied; Floréal Solé; Bastien Mennecart (2019). "The cranium of Provierra typica (Mammalia, Hyaenodonta) and its impact on hyaenodont phylogeny and endocranial evolution". Palaeontology. 62 (6): 983–1001. Bibcode:2019Palgy..62..983D. doi:10.1111/pala.12437. S2CID   201310577.