Proviverridae – Wikipedia

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Extinct family of mammals

Proviverridae (“before civets”) is an extinct family of placental mammals from extinct superfamily Hyaenodontoidea within extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to late Eocene deposits in Europe.[6][7][8]

Classification and phylogeny[edit]

Taxonomy[edit]

  • Family: †Proviverridae (Wortman, 1902)
    • Genus: †Minimovellentodon (Solé, 2014)
      • Minimovellentodon russelli (Solé, 2014)
    • Genus: †Morlodon (Solé, 2013)
      • Morlodon vellerei (Solé, 2013)
    • Genus: †Parvagula (Lange-Badré, 1987)
      • Parvagula palulae (Lange-Badré, 1987)
    • (unranked): †Allopterodon/Proviverra clade
      • Genus: †Allopterodon (Ginsburg, 1977)
        • Allopterodon bulbosus (Lange-Badré, 1979)
        • Allopterodon minor (Filhol, 1877)
        • Allopterodon torvidus (Van Valen, 1965)
      • Genus: †Lesmesodon (Morlo & Habersetzer, 1999)
        • Lesmesodon behnkeae (Morlo & Habersetzer, 1999)
        • Lesmesodon edingeri (Springhorn, 1982)
        • Lesmesodon gunnelli (Solé, 2021)
      • Genus: †Proviverra (Rütimeyer, 1862)
        • Proviverra typica (Rütimeyer, 1862)

Phylogeny[edit]

The phylogenetic relationships of family Proviverridae are shown in the following cladogram:[9][10][11][12][13]

 †Hyaenodonta 

Lahimia clade

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Allopterodon/Proviverra
clade

Arfia clade

Galecyon clade

Indohyaenodon clade

Tritemnodon clade

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Schlosser, M. (1886.) “Paläontologische Notizen. Über das Verhältnis der Cope’schen Creodonta zu den übrigen Fleischfressern.” Morphologische Jahrbuch 12: 287–294.
  2. ^ Haeckel, Ernst (1895). Systematische Phylogenie: Wirbelthiere (in German). Vol. T.3. Berlin: G. Reimer.
  3. ^ W. D. Matthew (1909.) “The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene.” Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
  4. ^ Van Valen, Leigh (1965). “Some European Proviverrini (Mammalia, Deltatheridia)” (PDF). Palaeontology. 8: 638–665.
  5. ^ Trouessart, E. L. (1885.) “Note sur le classification des Analgésiens et diagnoses d’espèces et de genres nouveaux.” Bulletin de la Société d’études scientifiques d’Angers, 14, 46–89. [Publ. February, 1885. for year 1884.]
  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. ^ Floréal Solé (2013). “New proviverrine genus from the Early Eocene of Europe and the first phylogeny of Late Palaeocene–Middle Eocene hyaenodontidans (Mammalia)”. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (4): 375–398. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.686927. S2CID 84734979.
  8. ^ Floréal Solé; Jocelyn Falconnet; Laurent Yves (2014). “New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae”. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 171 (4): 878–917. doi:10.1111/zoj.12155.
  9. ^ Borths, Matthew R; Stevens, Nancy J (2017). “Deciduous dentition and dental eruption of Hyainailouroidea (Hyaenodonta, “Creodonta,” Placentalia, Mammalia)”. Palaeontologia Electronica. 20 (3): 55A. doi:10.26879/776.
  10. ^ Matthew R. Borths; Nancy J. Stevens (2019). Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, ‘Creodonta,’ Mammalia), a gigantic carnivore from the earliest Miocene of Kenya”. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (1): e1570222. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1570222. S2CID 145972918.
  11. ^ Floréal Solé; Bernard Marandat; Fabrice Lihoreau (2020). “The hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the French locality of Aumelas (Hérault), with possible new representatives from the late Ypresian”. Geodiversitas. 42 (13): 185–214. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a13.
  12. ^ Solé, F.; Morlo, M.; Schaal, T.; Lehmann, T. (2021). “New hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the late Ypresian locality of Prémontré (France) support a radiation of the hyaenodonts in Europe already at the end of the early Eocene”. Geobios. 66–67: 119–141. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2021.02.004. S2CID 234848856.
  13. ^ Averianov, Alexander; Obraztsova, Ekaterina; Danilov, Igor; Jin, Jian-Hua (2023). “A new hypercarnivorous hyaenodont from the Eocene of South China”. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1076819/full. ISSN 2296-701X.



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