Miacoidea
Extinct superfamily of carnivores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Miacoidea ("small points") is a former paraphyletic superfamily of extinct placental mammals that lived during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, about 66-33,9 million years ago.[2][3][4][5][6][7] This group had been traditionally divided into two families of primitive carnivorous mammals: Miacidae (the miacids) and Viverravidae (the viverravids). These mammals were basal to order Carnivora, the crown-group within the Carnivoramorpha.
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Miacoidea | |
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skull of Miacis parvivorus | |
skull of Viverravus minutus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
Superfamily: | †Miacoidea Cope, 1880[1] |
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