Subparictis Temporal range: Chadronian to Whitneyan | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | † Subparictidae |
Genus: | † Subparictis Clark and Guensburg, 1972 |
Type species | |
†Subparictis gilpini Clark and Guensburg, 1972 | |
Species | |
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Subparictis is an extinct genus of carnivoran mammals in the family Subparictidae that inhabited North America.
Subparictis was originally described as a subgenus of Parictis for Parictis (Subparictis) gilpini in 1972. [1] It also included three other species: S. dakotensis, which had first been described in 1936; [2] S. parvus, which was first described in 1967; [3] and S. montanus, which was described in the same 1972 paper that named the subgenus. [1]
The genus Parictis was revised, and Subparictis elevated to a full genus, in an extensive re-description in 1996. [4] It is assigned to the early arctoid family Subparictidae as of 2023. [5]