Xinyuictis

Xinyuictis Temporal range: 56.0–33.9  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early to late Eocene
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Clade:	Carnivoraformes
Genus:	† Xinyuictis Zheng, 1975
Type species
†Xinyuictis tenuis Zheng, 1975
Species
†X. tenuis(Zheng, 1975) [1] †X. thailandicus(Ducrocq, 1992) [2]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus: Xinyüictis (Zheng, 1975) Yinyuictis (Huang, 1999) [3] synonyms of species: X. tenuis: Miacis tenuis(Gingerich, 1983) [4] Yinyuictis tenuis(Huang, 1999) X. thailandicus: Miacis thailandicus(Ducrocq, 1992)

Xinyuictis ("weasel from Xinyu") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in Asia from the early to late Eocene. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. J. Zheng, Y. Tung, and H. Qi. (1975) "Discovery of Miacidae (Carnivora) in Yuanshui Basin, Kiangsi Province." Vertebrata PalAsiatica 13(2):96-104
2. Ducrocq S., Buffetaut E., Buffetaut-Tong H., Helmcke-Ingavat R., Jaeger J.-J., Jongkanchanasoontorn Y. and Suteethorn V. (1992) "A lower Tertiary vertebrate fauna from Krabi (South Thailand)." Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie Abhandlungen 184(1): 101–122.
3. X.-S. Huang, Y.-S. Tong and J.-W. Wang (1999.) "A new Miacis (Mammalia Carnivora, Miacidae) from the Middle Eocene of Yuanqu Basin, Shanxi Province." Vertebrata PalAsiatica 37(4):291-299
4. P. D. Gingerich (1983) "Systematics of Early Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) in the Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming." Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 26(10):197-225
5. 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.
6. J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.) "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN   9780521355193
7. Heinrich, R. E.; Strait, S. G.; Houde, P. (2008). "Earliest Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from northwestern Wyoming" . Journal of Paleontology. 82 (1): 154–162. Bibcode:2008JPal...82..154H. doi:10.1666/05-118.1. S2CID   35030667.
8. Faurby, Søren; Morlo, Michael; Werdelin, Lars; Lyons, Kathleen (2021). "CarniFOSS: A database of the body mass of fossil carnivores". Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30 (10): 1958–1964. Bibcode:2021GloEB..30.1958F. doi:10.1111/geb.13369. S2CID   238780792.