Palaeonictis

Palaeonictis
Temporal range: 56.2–50.5 Ma Late Paleocene - Early Eocene
skull of Palaeonictis occidentalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Order: †Oxyaenodonta
Family: †Oxyaenidae
Subfamily: †Palaeonictinae
Genus: †Palaeonictis
de Blainville, 1842
Type species
†Palaeonictis gigantea
de Blainville, 1842
Species
  • †P. gigantea (de Blainville, 1842)[1]
  • †P. occidentalis (Osborn, 1892)[2]
  • †P. peloria (Rose, 1981)[3]
  • †P. wingi (Chester, 2010)[4]
Synonyms[5]
synonyms of genus:
  • Dormaalodon (Lange-Badré, 1987)
  • Palaeonyctis (Cope, 1880)[6]
synonyms of species:
  • P. gigantea:
    • Dormaalodon woutersi (Lange-Badré, 1987)[7]
    • Oxyaena casieri (Quinet, 1966)[8]
    • Palaeonyctis gigantea (Cope, 1880)

Palaeonictis ("ancient weasel") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Palaeonictinae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in Europe and North America from the late Paleocene to the early Eocene.[9]

  1. ^ de Blaineville (1842) "Ostéographie ou description iconographique comparée du squelette et du système dentaire des mammifères récents et fossiles pour servir de base à la zoologie et à la géologie." Livraison 10: Des Viverras. J.B. Baillière et Fils, Paris: 1–100
  2. ^ Osborn, H. F. (1892.) "Taxonomy and morphology of the primates, creodonts, and ungulates." In: "Fossil mammals of the Wahsatch and Wind River beds. Collection of 1891." (H. F. Osborn and J. L. Wortman), Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 4: 81-147
  3. ^ K. D. Rose. (1981.) "The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary." University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197
  4. ^ Stephen G. B. Chester; Jonathan I. Bloch; Ross Secord; Doug M. Boyer (2010). "A new small bodied species of Palaeonictis (Creodonta, Oxyaenidae) from the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 17 (4): 227–243. doi:10.1007/s10914-010-9141-y. S2CID 15058311.
  5. ^ J. Alroy (2002.) "Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals."
  6. ^ E. D. Cope. (1880.) "On the genera of the Creodonta." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 19:76-82
  7. ^ T. Smith and R. Smith. (2001.) "The creodonts (Mammalia, Ferae) from the Paleocene-Eocene transition in Belgium (Tienen Formation, MP7)." Belgian Journal of Zoology 131(2):117-135
  8. ^ F. Solé, E. Gheerbrant, and M. Godinot. (2011.) "New data on the Oxyaenidae from the Early Eocene of Europe; biostratigraphic, paleobiogeographic and paleoecologic implications." Palaeontologia Electronica 14(2):13A:1-41
  9. ^ Stephen Jay Gould, John Barber & Peter Andrews (2001). The Book of Life. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-32156-8.