Parictis
Parictis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | †Subparictidae |
Genus: | †Parictis Scott, 1893 |
Type species | |
†Parictis primaevus | |
Species | |
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Parictis is an extinct arctoid belonging to the family Subparictidae.
Taxonomy & evolution
It was originally described as a new genus and species Parietis princeous of mustelid by Scott in 1893, for a single specimen, a mandible fragment with two anterior molars.[1] An alternative name and spelling, ?Parictis princeps, was proposed in 1894;[2] and in 1904 both the genus and species name were declared to be in error and the name Parictis primaevus was assigned.[3]
Parictis bathygenus was described in 1947, but it was considered a different genus by 1958, and a synonym of Cynelos caroniavorus by 1976.[4][5]
Another species was described in 1954 as Campylocynodon personi,[6] and was reassigned to the genus Parictis in 1967.[7] And Parictis major was described during a review of the genus in 1972.[8]
The genus as a whole was placed within various families, including
Description
It was a very small and graceful
References
- ^ Scott, W. B. (1893). "On a new musteline from the John Day Miocene". American Naturalist. 27: 658–659.
- ^ Lyddeker, R. (1894). "II. Mammalia". The Zoological Record. 30: 29.
- ^ Hay, O.P. (1902). "Bibliography and catalogue of fossil Vertebrata of North America". Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. 179: 767.
- JSTOR 1300686.
- ^ Tedford, Richard H.; Frailey, David (1976). Review of some Carnivora (Mammalia) from the Thomas Farm local fauna (Hemingfordian, Gilchrist County, Florida) (PDF). American Museum Novitates; no. 2610. New York: American Museum of Natural History. p. 2.
- JSTOR 1300205.
- ^ Clark, J.; Beerbower, J. R. (1967). "Geology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology of the Chadron Formation". Fieldiana. 5 (5): 21–74.
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- JSTOR 1373915.
- ISBN 978-0-521-35519-3.
- S2CID 259025727.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-850760-4.
- ISBN 978-0-944740-04-0.