Proviverrinae

Proviverrinae
Temporal range: 57.0–34.0 Ma Early to Late Eocene
Fossil of Lesmesodon edingeri
Skull of Proviverra typica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: †Hyaenodontoidea
Subfamily: †Proviverrinae
Schlosser, 1886[1]
Type genus
†Proviverra
Rütimeyer, 1862
Genera
Synonyms
list of synonyms:
  • Proviverrida (Haeckel, 1895)[2]
  • Proviverrinae (Matthew, 1909)[3]
  • Proviverrini (Van Valen, 1965)[4]
  • Stypolophinae (Trouessart, 1885)[5]

Proviverrinae ("before civets") is an extinct subfamily of placental mammals within the extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to late Eocene deposits in Europe.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ Schlosser, M. (1886.) "Paläontologische Notizen. Über das Verhältnis der Cope’schen Creodonta zu den übrigen Fleischfressern." Archived 10 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine Morphologische Jahrbuch 12: 287–294.
  2. ^ Haeckel, Ernst (1895). Systematische Phylogenie: Wirbelthiere (in German). Vol. T.3. Berlin: G. Reimer.
  3. ^ W. D. Matthew (1909.) "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Archived 6 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289–567
  4. ^ Van Valen, Leigh (1965). "Some European Proviverrini (Mammalia, Deltatheridia)" (PDF). Palaeontology. 8: 638–665. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  5. ^ Trouessart, E. L. (1885.) "Note sur le classification des Analgésiens et diagnoses d'espèces et de genres nouveaux." Archived 8 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques d'Angers, 14, 46–89. [Publ. February 1885. for year 1884.]
  6. ^ 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. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  7. ^ Floréal Solé (2013). "New proviverrine genus from the Early Eocene of Europe and the first phylogeny of Late Palaeocene–Middle Eocene hyaenodontidans (Mammalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (4): 375–398. Bibcode:2013JSPal..11..375S. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.686927. S2CID 84734979.
  8. ^ Floréal Solé; Jocelyn Falconnet; Laurent Yves (2014). "New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 171 (4): 878–917. doi:10.1111/zoj.12155.