Viverravinae

This article is about an extinct subfamily of mammals. For the extant subfamily, see Viverrinae.

Viverravinae Temporal range: 63.8–39.7  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early Paleocene – middle Eocene
skull of Viverravus minutus
lower jaw of Simpsonictis tenuis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Superfamily:	† Viverravoidea
Family:	† Viverravidae
Subfamily:	† Viverravinae Wortman & Matthew, 1899 [1]
Type genus
† Viverravus Marsh, 1872
Genera
† Simpsonictis † Viverravus † Viverriscus
Synonyms
Viverravidae (Wortman & Matthew, 1899) Viverravina (Kalandadze & Rautian, 1992) [2] Viverravini (Kalandadze & Rautian, 1992)

Viverravinae ("ancestors of viverrids") is an extinct subfamily of mammals from extinct family Viverravidae, that lived from the early Palaeocene to the middle Eocene in North America, Asia and Europe. ^[3]

Classification and phylogeny

Classification

• Subfamily: †Viverravinae(Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
  • Genus: † Simpsonictis (MacIntyre, 1962)
    • †Simpsonictis jaynanneae(Rigby, 1980)
    • †Simpsonictis pegus(Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
    • †Simpsonictis tenuis(Simpson, 1935)
  • Genus: † Viverravus (Marsh, 1872)
    • †Viverravus acutus(Matthew & Granger, 1915)
    • †Viverravus gracilis(Marsh, 1872)
    • †Viverravus lawsoni(Hooker, 2010)
    • †Viverravus laytoni(Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
    • †Viverravus lutosus(Gazin, 1952)
    • †Viverravus minutus(Wortman, 1901)
    • †Viverravus politus(Matthew & Granger, 1915)
    • †Viverravus rosei(Polly, 1997)
    • †Viverravus sicarius(Matthew, 1909)
    • †Viverravus sp. [V11141] (Meng, 1998)
    • †Viverravus sp. [Locality Group 2, Washakie Basin, Wyoming] (Tomiya, 2021)
  • Genus: † Viverriscus (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
    • †Viverriscus omnivorus(Beard & Dawson, 2009)

References

1. Wortman, J. L.; Matthew, W. D. (1899). "The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, Viverridae, and Procyonidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 12: 109–138. hdl:2246/1535. OCLC   46687698.
2. Kalandadze, N. N. and S. A. Rautian (1992.) "Systema mlekopitayushchikh i istorygeskaya zoogeographei [The system of mammals and historical zoogeography]." Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Moskovskogo Goschdarstvennoro Universiteta 29:44–152.
3. 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 . Retrieved 16 March 2015.