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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Genus: | †Asiavorator Spassov & Lange-Badré, 1995 |
| Species: | †A. gracilis
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| †Asiavorator gracilis Matthew & Granger, 1924
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Asiavorator (meaning "Asian devourer") is an extinct genus of civet-like carnivoran belonging in the family Stenoplesictidae. It was endemic to Asia and lived during the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.[1]
The teeth of Asiavorator suggest that it was omnivorous or more precisely, ranged from hypercarnivorous to mesocarnivorous.[2][3]
- ^ Paleobiology Database: Asiavorator basic info.
- ^ Lillegraven, J. A. (1979). "Reproduction in Mesozoic mammals". In J. A. Lillegraven; Z. Kielan-Jaworowska; W. A. Clemens (eds.). Mesozoic Mammals: The First Two-Thirds of Mammalian History. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 259–276.
- ^ Nowak, R. M. (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World, Sixth Edition. Vol. I. pp. 1–836.