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Didymictinae

Didymictinae
Temporal range: 63.8–39.7 Ma early Paleocene - middle Eocene
skull of Didymictis protenus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Genera
Synonyms
  • Didymictida (Flynn & Galiano, 1982)
  • Didymictidae (Flynn & Galiano, 1982)

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

Classification

  • 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:

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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.