Herpestides
| Herpestides Temporal range: Early Miocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Superfamily: | Aeluroidea |
| Genus: | †Herpestides |
| Species | |
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Herpestides is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore that was endemic to North Africa and Southern Europe during the Early Miocene subepoch (22.4—20 mya) and existed for approximately 2.4 million years.[1]
Taxonomy
Herpestides was named by de Beaumont (1967). It is not extant. It was assigned to Aeluroidea by Hunt (1989); and to Viverridae by Flynn (1998) and Morlo et al. (2007).[2]
Species
H. aegypticus, H. aequatorialis, H. antiquus, H. compactus
Sister genera
Africanictis, Anictis, Asiavorator, Haplogale, Mioprionodon, Moghradictis, Nandinia, Palaeoprionodon, Proailurus, Shandgolictis, Stenogale, Stenoplesictis.
Resources
- ↑ PaleoBiology Database: Herpestides, basic info
- ↑ R. M. Hunt. 1989. Evolution of the aeluroid Carnivora: significance of the ventral promontorial process of the petrosal, and the origin of basicranial patterns in the living families. American Museum Novitates
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