Viverravus

Viverravus
Temporal range: 60.9–39.7 Ma Middle Paleocene to Middle Eocene[1]
skull of Viverravus minutus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superfamily: †Viverravoidea
Family: †Viverravidae
Subfamily: †Viverravinae
Genus: †Viverravus
Marsh, 1872[2]
Type species
†Viverravus gracilis
Marsh, 1872
Species
[see classification]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Triacodon (Marsh, 1871)[3]
  • Xiphacodon (Schlosser, 1890)
  • Ziphacodon (Marsh, 1872)
synonyms of species:
  • V. gracilis:
    • Didymictis dawkinsianus (Cope, 1881)[4]
    • Harpalodon vulpinus (Marsh, 1872)
    • Triacodon fallax (Marsh, 1871)
    • Viverravus dawkinsianus (Cope, 1881)
    • Viverravus nitidus (Marsh, 1872)
    • Viverravus vulpinus (Marsh, 1872)
    • Ziphacodon ugatus (Marsh, 1872)
    • Ziphacodon rugatus (Marsh, 1872)
  • V. laytoni:
    • Protictis laytoni (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
    • Viverravus bowni (Gingerich, 1987)[5]
  • V. politus:
    • Protictis schaffi (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
    • Viverravus schaffi (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)

Viverravus ("ancestor of Viverra") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Viverravinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America, Europe and Asia from the middle Paleocene to middle Eocene.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ "Viverravus". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Marsh1872 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ O. C. Marsh (1871.) "Notice of some new fossil mammals and birds from the Tertiary formation of the West." American Journal of Science 2(8):120-127
  4. ^ E. D. Cope (1881.) "On the Vertebrata of the Wind River Eocene beds of Wyoming." Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey 6(1):183-202
  5. ^ P. D. Gingerich. (1987.) "Early Eocene bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) and other vertebrates in freshwater limestones of the Willlwood Formation, Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming." Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(11):275-320
  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. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  7. ^ J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.) "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2
  8. ^ Viverravus in Fossil Works / Paleodb.org