Palaeonictis
Extinct family of mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Palaeonictis ("ancient weasel") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Palaeonictinae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in Europe and North America from the late Paleocene to the early Eocene.[9]
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Palaeonictis | |
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skull of Palaeonictis occidentalis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Order: | †Oxyaenodonta |
Family: | †Oxyaenidae |
Subfamily: | †Palaeonictinae |
Genus: | †Palaeonictis de Blainville, 1842 |
Type species | |
†Palaeonictis gigantea de Blainville, 1842 | |
Species | |
Synonyms[5] | |
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