Quercygale

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Quercygale
Temporal range: 55.2–35.0  Ma
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Early to Late Eocene
Quercygale angustidens endocranio e cranio.jpg
skull of species Quercygale angustidens
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Family:† Quercygalidae
Kretzoi, 1945 [1]
Genus:† Quercygale
Kretzoi, 1945
Type species
†Quercygale angustidens
Filhol, 1872
Species
[see classification [ broken anchor ]]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Humbertia(De Beaumont, 1965) [2]
synonyms of species:
  • Q. angustidens:
    • Humbertia angustidens(De Beaumont, 1965)
    • Procynodictis euzetensis(Depéret, 1917) [3]
    • Viverra angustidens(Filhol, 1872) [4]
    • Viverravus euzetensis(Depéret, 1917)
  • Q. hastingsae:
    • Viverra hastingsae(Davies, 1884)
    • Viverravus hastingsae(Depéret, 1917)
  • Q. helvetica:
    • Cynodon helveticus(Rütimeyer, 1862)
    • Humbertia helvetica(De Beaumont, 1965)
    • Miacis macintyri(Van Valen, 1965) [5]
    • Quercygale macintyri(Russell, 1982) [6]
    • Tapocyon macintyri(Russell, 1982)

Quercygale ("weasel from Quercy") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from the clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in Europe during the early to late Eocene. [7] [8]

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Relation to other taxa

Currently, Quercygale is either assigned to no family (i. e. it is just classified as one of the basal genera of Carnivoraformes) or it is assigned to the paraphyletic family Miacidae. [9] Phylogenetic analysis of the basicranial morphology of carnivoramorphans suggests that Quercygale is the most advanced member of the clade Carnivoraformes as a sister taxon to crown-clade Carnivora, predating the split between Feliformia and Caniformia. [10] [11] [12] Another recent study, however, has proposed that the genus Quercygale should be placed as a stem group within Feliformia. [13]

In the past (till about 2010), Quercygale was assigned either to the family Miacidae (which was considered monophyletic in the past), or to the family Viverravidae. Only one author (Kretzoi 1945) classified it as the only genus of its own family Quercygalidae (Quercygalidae, however, was considered another name for the family Miacidae by another author). Alternatively, individual authors considered Quercygale to be a basal genus of Caniformia or a synonym of the genus Tapocyon . [10] [14] [15]

Species

Genus: †Quercygale(Kretzoi, 1945)
Species:Distribution of the species and type locality:Age:
†Q. angustidens(Filhol, 1872) [4] Flag of France.svg  France (Quercy Phosphorites and Sables Du Castrais)40.0–37.5 Ma
†Q. hastingsae(Davies, 1884) [16] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK (Headon Bedes)37.8–37.5 Ma
†Q. helvetica(Rütimeyer, 1862) [17] Flag of France.svg  France
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 		47.8–41.2 Ma
†Q. smithi(Solé, 2014) [11] Flag of France.svg  France (Mutigny and Mancy)55.2–47.8 Ma
†Q. sp. [MNNA 9010] (Astibia, 2000) [18] Flag of Spain.svg  Spain (Basque Country)37.0–35.0 Ma

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References

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