Proviverrinae

Proviverrinae Temporal range: 56.0–34.0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early to Late Eocene
Fossil of Lesmesodon edingeri
Skull of Proviverra typica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	† Hyaenodonta
Superfamily:	† Hyaenodontoidea
Clade:	† Proviverrinae Schlosser, 1886 [1]
Type genus
† Proviverra Rütimeyer, 1862
Genera
[see classification]
Synonyms
list of synonyms: Proviverrida (Haeckel, 1895) [2] Proviverridae (Schlosser, 1886) Proviverrini (Van Valen, 1965) [3] Stypolophinae (Trouessart, 1885) [4]

Proviverrinae ("before civets") is an extinct clade of placental mammals within superfamily Hyaenodontoidea in extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to late Eocene deposits in Europe. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Clade: †Proviverrinae(Wortman, 1902) Genus: † Minimovellentodon (Solé, 2014) †Minimovellentodon russelli(Solé, 2014) Genus: † Morlodon (Solé, 2013) †Morlodon vellerei(Solé, 2013) Genus: † Parvagula (Lange-Badré, 1987) †Parvagula palulae(Lange-Badré, 1987) (unranked): †Allopterodon/Proviverra clade Genus: † Allopterodon (Ginsburg, 1977) †Allopterodon bulbosus(Lange-Badré, 1979) †Allopterodon minor(Filhol, 1877) †Allopterodon torvidus(Van Valen, 1965) Genus: † Lesmesodon (Morlo & Habersetzer, 1999) †Lesmesodon behnkeae(Morlo & Habersetzer, 1999) †Lesmesodon edingeri(Springhorn, 1982) †Lesmesodon gunnelli(Solé, 2021) Genus: † Proviverra (Rütimeyer, 1862) †Proviverra typica(Rütimeyer, 1862)

References

1. Schlosser, M. (1886.) "Paläontologische Notizen. Über das Verhältnis der Cope’schen Creodonta zu den übrigen Fleischfressern." Archived 10 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine Morphologische Jahrbuch 12: 287–294.
2. Haeckel, Ernst (1895). Systematische Phylogenie: Wirbelthiere (in German). Vol. T.3. Berlin: G. Reimer.
3. Van Valen, Leigh (1965). "Some European Proviverrini (Mammalia, Deltatheridia)" (PDF). Palaeontology. 8: 638–665. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
4. Trouessart, E. L. (1885.) "Note sur le classification des Analgésiens et diagnoses d'espèces et de genres nouveaux." Archived 8 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques d'Angers, 14, 46–89. [Publ. February 1885. for year 1884.]
5. W. D. Matthew (1909.) "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Archived 6 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289–567
6. 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. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
7. Floréal Solé (2013). "New proviverrine genus from the Early Eocene of Europe and the first phylogeny of Late Palaeocene–Middle Eocene hyaenodontidans (Mammalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (4): 375–398. Bibcode:2013JSPal..11..375S. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.686927. S2CID   84734979.
8. Floréal Solé; Jocelyn Falconnet; Laurent Yves (2014). "New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 171 (4): 878–917. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12155 .