Quercygale

Quercygale
Temporal range: 55.2–35.0 Ma Early to Late Eocene
skull of species Quercygale angustidens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Family: †Quercygalidae
Kretzoi, 1945[1]
Genus: †Quercygale
Kretzoi, 1945
Type species
†Quercygale angustidens
Filhol, 1872
Species
[see classification[broken anchor]]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Humbertia (De Beaumont, 1965)[2]
synonyms of species:
  • Q. angustidens:
    • Humbertia angustidens (De Beaumont, 1965)
    • Procynodictis euzetensis (Depéret, 1917)[3]
    • Viverra angustidens (Filhol, 1872)[4]
    • Viverravus euzetensis (Depéret, 1917)
  • Q. hastingsae:
    • Viverra hastingsae (Davies, 1884)
    • Viverravus hastingsae (Depéret, 1917)
  • Q. helvetica:
    • Cynodon helveticus (Rütimeyer, 1862)
    • Humbertia helvetica (De Beaumont, 1965)
    • Miacis macintyri (Van Valen, 1965)[5]
    • Quercygale macintyri (Russell, 1982)[6]
    • Tapocyon macintyri (Russell, 1982)

Quercygale ("weasel from Quercy") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from the clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in Europe during the early to late Eocene.[7][8]

  1. ^ Miklos Kretzoi (1945) "Bemerkungen über das Raubtiersystem." Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Budapest, vol. 38, pp. 59–83.
  2. ^ Gérard de Beaumont (1965.) "Les Viverravinae (Carnivora, Miacidae) de l’Eocène de la Suisse." Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 69:133–146.
  3. ^ Depéret C. (1917.) "Monographie de la faune de mammiféres fossiles du Ludien inférieur d'Euget-les-Bains (Gard)." Ann. Univ. Lyon (N. S.), Div. 1, 40, 1–288.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Filhol1872 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Van Valen, Leigh (1965). "Some European Proviverrini (Mammalia, Deltatheridia)" (PDF). Palaeontology. 8: 638–665.
  6. ^ Donald E. Russell, Jean-Louis Hartenberger, Charles Pomerol, Sevket Sen, Norbert Schmidt-Kittler and Monique Vianey-Liaud (1982.) "Mammals and stratigraphy: the Paleocene of Europe" Palaeovertebrata Vol. 12
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Quercygale". www.paleodb.org. Retrieved 11 March 2017.