Viverravinae early | |
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skull of Viverravus minutus | |
lower jaw of Simpsonictis tenuis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
Superfamily: | †Viverravoidea |
Family: | †Viverravidae |
Subfamily: | †Viverravinae Wortman & Matthew, 1899[1] |
Type genus | |
†Viverravus Marsh, 1872
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Viverravinae ("ancestors of viverrids") is an extinct subfamily of mammals from extinct family Viverravidae, that lived from the early Palaeocene to the middle Eocene in North America, Asia and Europe.[3]