Proviverra

Extinct genus of mammals

Proviverra
Temporal range: 46.3–41.2 Ma
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Proviverra typica skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: Hyaenodontoidea
Subfamily: Proviverrinae
Genus: Proviverra
Rutimeyer, 1862
Type species
Proviverra typica
Rutimeyer, 1862[1]
Synonyms[2]
synonyms of genus:
  • Prorhyzaena (Rütimeyer, 1891)[3]
synonyms of species:
  • P. typica:
    • Prorhyzaena egerkingiae (Rütimeyer, 1891)

Proviverra ("before civet") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct family Proviverridae within extinct superfamily Hyaenodontoidea (in extinct order Hyaenodonta), that lived during the Middle Eocene in Europe.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ Rütimeyer, L. (1862.) "Eocaene Säugetiere aus dem Gebiet des Schweizerischen Jura." Neue Denkschriften der allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 19, 1–98.
  2. ^ J. Alroy (2002.) "Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals."
  3. ^ Rütimeyer L. (1891.) "Die eocäne Säugethier-Welt von Egerkingen. Abhandlungen der Schweizerischen Palaeontologischen Gesellschaft, 18, 1–153.
  4. ^ H. W. Matthes (1952.) "I. Abhandlung: Die Creodontier aus der mitteleozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltals (I. Part: The Creodonta from the Middle Eocene of Geiseltal)." Hallesches Jahrbuch für mitteldeutsche Erdgeschichte 1:201-240
  5. ^ "Proviverra". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
  6. ^ Morgane Dubied; Floréal Solé; Bastien Mennecart (2019). "The cranium of Provierra typica (Mammalia, Hyaenodonta) and its impact on hyaenodont phylogeny and endocranial evolution". Palaeontology. 62 (6): 983–1001. Bibcode:2019Palgy..62..983D. doi:10.1111/pala.12437. S2CID 201310577.
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Mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora
Pan-Carnivora
Carnivoramorpha
  • See Carnivoramorpha below ↓
Hyaenodonta
  • See Hyaenodonta below ↓
Oxyaenodonta
  • See Oxyaenodonta below ↓
†Wyolestidae
Wyolestes
Hyaenodontoidea
Hyaenodontidae
  • Alienetherium
  • Boritia
  • Cartierodon
  • Consobrinus
  • Cynohyaenodon
  • Eurotherium
  • Hyaenodon
  • Leonhardtina
  • Matthodon
  • Neosinopa
  • Oxyaenoides
  • Paenoxyaenoides
  • Paracynohyaenodon
  • Praecodens
  • Preregidens
  • Prodissopsalis
  • Propterodon
  • Protoproviverra
  • Quercytherium
Proviverridae
  • Allopterodon
  • Lesmesodon
  • Minimovellentodon
  • Morlodon
  • Parvagula
  • Proviverra
†Afro‑Arabian
clade
Indohyaenodontidae
Hyainailouroidea
Hyainailouridae
Maocyon/Orienspterodon clade
Apterodontinae
Hyainailourinae
Akhnatenavus clade
Hyainailourini
†Prionogalidae
  • Namasector
  • Prionogale
  • Thereutherium
Teratodontinae
other representatives
  • Eoproviverra
  • Gazinocyon
  • Pyrocyon
Arfia clade
  • Arfia
Galecyon clade
Lahimia clade
Limnocyonidae
Sinopidae
  • Acarictis
  • Prototomus
  • Sinopa
ichnotaxa
of Hyaenodonta
  • Creodontipus
  • Dischidodacylus
  • Sarcotherichnus
  • Zanclonychopus
  • Hyaenodontipus
  • Quiritipes
  • Sarjeantipes
Oxyaenidae
Machaeroidinae
Oxyaeninae
Palaeonictinae
Tytthaeninae
Carnivoraformes
(Clade "A")
Clade "B"
Quercygalidae
Gracilocyon/Oodectes clade
Clade "C"
Clade "D"
Carnivora
(Clade "E")
Caniformia
(See Caniformia)
Feliformia
(See Feliformia)
other representatives
ichnotaxa of
Carnivoraformes
  • Falcatipes
Viverravoidea
Viverravidae
  • Orientictis
  • Pappictidops
  • Preonictis
  • Variviverra
Didymictinae
Ictidopappinae
Viverravinae
Incertae sedis
  • Ravenictis
Taxon identifiers
Proviverra


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