Miacoidea
Miacoidea early | |
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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] |
Families | |
Miacoidea ("small points") is a former
crown-group within the Carnivoramorpha
.
Biology
Miacoids were mostly small carnivorous mammals, superficially reminiscent of
teeth and skull
show that the miacoids were less developed than modern carnivores.
Classification
- Superfamily: †Miacoidea (Cope, 1880)
- Family: †Miacidae (Cope, 1880)
- Family: †Viverravidae (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
- Incertae sedis:
- †"Sinopa" insectivorus (Cope, 1872)
Phylogeny
Ferungulata |
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References
- ^ E. D. Cope (1880.) "On the genera of the Creodonta." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 19:76-82
- ^ 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
- ^ Robert L. Carroll (1988.) "Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution." W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, Miacoidea
- ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ISBN 9780521355193
- ^ 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
- ^ 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