Didymictinae
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Superfamily: | †Viverravoidea |
| Family: | †Viverravidae |
| Subfamily: | †Didymictinae Flynn & Galiano, 1982[1] |
| Type genus | |
| †Didymictis Cope, 1875
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Didymictinae ("double weasels") is an extinct subfamily of mammals from extinct family Viverravidae, that lived from the early Palaeocene to the middle Eocene in North America and Europe.[2]
Classification and phylogeny
[edit]Classification
[edit]- Subfamily: †Didymictinae (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
- Genus: †Bryanictis (MacIntyre, 1966)
- †Bryanictis microlestes (Simpson, 1935)
- †Bryanictis paulus (Meehan & Wilson, 2002)
- †Bryanictis terlinguae (Standhardt, 1986)
- Genus: †Didymictis (Cope, 1875)
- †Didymictis altidens (Cope, 1880)
- †Didymictis dellensis (Dorr, 1952)
- †Didymictis leptomylus (Cope, 1880)
- †Didymictis protenus (Cope, 1874)
- †Didymictis proteus (Polly, 1997)
- †Didymictis vancleveae (Robinson, 1966)
- †Didymictis sp. [Erquelinnes, Hainaut, Belgium] (Dollo, 1909)
- Genus: †Intyrictis (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
- †Intyrictis vanvaleni (MacIntyre, 1966)
- Genus: †Pristinictis (Fox & Youzwyshyn, 1994)
- †Pristinictis connata (Fox & Youzwyshyn, 1994)
- Genus: †Protictis (Matthew, 1937)
- †Protictis agastor (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
- †Protictis haydenianus (Cope, 1882)
- †Protictis minor (Meehan & Wilson, 2002)
- †Protictis paralus (Holtzman, 1978)
- †Protictis simpsoni (Meehan & Wilson, 2002)
- †Protictis aprophatos (Flynn & Galiano, 1982)
- Genus: †Raphictis (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
- †Raphictis gausion (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
- †Raphictis iota (Scott, 2008)
- †Raphictis machaera (Rankin, 2009)
- †Raphictis nanoptexis (Rankin, 2009)
- Incertae sedis:
- †"Deltatherium" durini (Van Valen, 1978)
- Genus: †Bryanictis (MacIntyre, 1966)
References
[edit]- ^ J. J. Flynn and H. Galiano. (1982.) "Phylogeny of Early Tertiary Carnivora, With a Description of a New Species of Protictis From the Middle Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming" American Museum Novitates 2725:1-64
- ^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
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