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carnivoramorphans and
possessed the
first true pair of carn****ial teeth. In
viverravids, the
skull is
elongated and the
number of
molars is
reduced to two (M1/m1...
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primitive carnivorous mammals:
Miacidae (the miacids) and
Viverravidae (the
viverravids).
These mammals were
basal to
order Carnivora, the crown-group within...
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middle Eocene (c. 42
million years ago). Traditionally, the
Viverravidae (
viverravids) had been
thought to be the
earliest carnivorans, with
fossil records...
- paraphyletic, with "miacids"
being more
closely related to
carnivorans than to
viverravids. In 2010 Flynn,
Finarelli &
Spaulding named a new
clade Carnivoraformes...
- that
Miacoidea is an
evolutionary grade of
carnivoramorphs that,
while viverravids are
monophyletic basal group, the
miacids are
paraphyletic in respect...
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coined by
Edward Drinker Cope in 1875. Cope
included the
oxyaenids and the
viverravid Didymictis but
omitted the Hyaenodontidae. In 1880. he
expanded the term...
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Pachycrocuta Genus Percrocuta Family Nandiniidae Family Viverravidae (
viverravids)
Family Viverridae (civets)
Genus Kanuites Genus Viverra Viverra leakeyi...
- MP-40, SC-67 and SC-79.
Skull and teeth. A
viverravid. D.
protenus Multiple postcranial specimens. A
viverravid.
Dipsalidictis D.
platypus Localities SC-67...
- and
Science Bulletin 8:1-141 T. J.
Meehan and R. W.
Wilson (2002) "New
viverravids from the
Torrejonian (Middle Paleocene) of Kutz Canyon, New
Mexico and...
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Pristinictis ("primitive weasel") is an
extinct genus of
placental mammals from
extinct subfamily Didymictinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that...
