Miacoidea

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Miacoidea
Temporal range: 66.0–33.9 
Ma
early Paleocene to late Eocene
skull of Miacis parvivorus
skull of Viverravus minutus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Superfamily: Miacoidea
Cope, 1880[1]
Families

Miacoidea ("small points") is a former

crown-group within the Carnivoramorpha
.

Biology

Miacoids were mostly small carnivorous mammals, superficially reminiscent of

show that the miacoids were less developed than modern carnivores.

Classification

Phylogeny

 Ferungulata 

Euungulata

 Ferae 

References

  1. ^ E. D. Cope (1880.) "On the genera of the Creodonta." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 19:76-82
  2. ^ J. J. Hooker (1986.) "Mammals from the Bartonian (middle/late Eocene) of the Hampshire Basin, southern England." Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 39(4):191-478
  3. ^ Robert L. Carroll (1988.) "Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution." W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, Miacoidea
  4. . Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  5. ^ T. J. Meehan and R. W. Wilson (2002) "New viverravids from the Torrejonian (Middle Paleocene) of Kutz Canyon, New Mexico and the oldest skull of the order Carnivora." Journal of Paleontology 76(6):1091-1101
  6. ^ K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack (2012) "Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122