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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...
- paraphyletic, with "miacids"
being more
closely related to
carnivorans than to
viverravids. In 2010 Flynn,
Finarelli &
Spaulding named a new
clade Carnivoraformes...
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primitive carnivorous mammals:
Miacidae (the miacids) and
Viverravidae (the
viverravids).
These mammals were
basal to
order Carnivora, the crown-group within...
- as
terrestrial and
arboreal habitats.
Studies have
shown that
while viverravids are a
monophyletic basal group, the
miacids are
paraphyletic with respect...
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middle Eocene (c. 42
million years ago). Traditionally, the
Viverravidae (
viverravids) had been
thought to be the
earliest carnivorans, with
fossil records...
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Intyrictis ("MacIntyre's weasel") is an
extinct genus of
placental mammals from
extinct subfamily Didymictinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that...
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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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Raphictis ("needle weasel") is an
extinct genus of
placental mammals from
extinct subfamily Didymictinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived...
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Pachycrocuta Genus Percrocuta Family Nandiniidae Family Viverravidae (
viverravids)
Family Viverridae (civets)
Genus Kanuites Genus Viverra Viverra leakeyi...
- and
Science Bulletin 8:1-141 T. J.
Meehan and R. W.
Wilson (2002) "New
viverravids from the
Torrejonian (Middle Paleocene) of Kutz Canyon, New
Mexico and...
