Bryanictis
Extinct genus of mammals
Bryanictis Temporal range: 63.8–56.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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lower jaw of Bryanictis microlestes | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Superfamily: | †Viverravoidea |
Family: | †Viverravidae |
Subfamily: | †Didymictinae |
Genus: | †Bryanictis MacIntyre, 1966[2] |
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†Bryanictis microlestes Simpson, 1935 | |
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Bryanictis ("Bryan's weasel") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Didymictinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America, from the early to late Paleocene.[6][7]
References
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ^ G. T. MacIntyre (1966) "The Miacidae (Mammalia, Carnivora): Part 1, The systematics of Ictidopappus and Protictis." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 131(2):115-210
- ^ Simpson, George Gaylord (1935). "New Paleocene Mammals from the Fort Union of Montana". Proceedings of the United States Museum. 83 (2981).
- ^ 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
- ^ Barbara R. Standhardt (1986.) "Vertebrate Paleontology of the Cretaceous/Tertiary Transition of ansition of Big Bend National Park, Texas (Lancian, Puercan, Mammalia, Dinosauria, Paleomagnetism)." Louisiana State University
- ^ 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.
- ^ J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.) "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2
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Mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Infraclass: Placentalia
- Superorder: Laurasiatheria
- Clade: Scrotifera
- Grandorder: Ferungulata
- Mirorder: Ferae
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