- paraphyletic, with "miacids"
being more
closely related to
carnivorans than to
viverravids. In 2010 Flynn,
Finarelli &
Spaulding named a new
clade Carnivoraformes...
-
carnivoramorphans and
possessed the
first true pair of carn****ial teeth. In
viverravids, the
skull is
elongated and the
number of
molars is
reduced to two (M1/m1...
-
primitive carnivorous mammals:
Miacidae (the miacids) and
Viverravidae (the
viverravids).
These mammals were
basal to
order Carnivora, the crown-group within...
- that
Miacoidea is an
evolutionary grade of
carnivoramorphs that,
while viverravids are
monophyletic basal group, the
miacids are
paraphyletic in respect...
-
middle Eocene (c. 42
million years ago). Traditionally, the
Viverravidae (
viverravids) had been
thought to be the
earliest carnivorans, with
fossil records...
-
coined by
Edward Drinker Cope in 1875. Cope
included the
oxyaenids and the
viverravid Didymictis but
omitted the Hyaenodontidae. In 1880. he
expanded the term...
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Carnivora - carnivores,
including living carnivorous mammals Didymictis,
viverravid carnivoran Condylarthra -
archaic ungulates Apheliscus,
hyopsodontid condylarth...
- A
sinopid hyaenodont.
Viverravidae Viverravus V.
minutus Lake
Uinta A
viverravid.
Incertae sedis "Miacis" "M."
gracilis Lake
Uinta A
carnivoraform of uncertain...
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Ictidopappus ("grandfather of weasels") is an
extinct genus of
mammals from
extinct subfamily Ictidopappinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived...
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Intyrictis ("MacIntyre's weasel") is an
extinct genus of
placental mammals from
extinct subfamily Didymictinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that...
