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| Proviverra Temporal range: Middle Eocene | |
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| Proviverra typica skull | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyaenodontoidea |
| Clade: | †Proviverrinae |
| Genus: | †Proviverra Rutimeyer, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| †Proviverra typica Rutimeyer, 1862[1] | |
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Proviverra ("before civet") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from the extinct clade Proviverrinae within the extinct superfamily Hyaenodontoidea, itself within the extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived during the Middle Eocene in Europe.[4][5][6]
Description
[edit]Dental topographic and three dimensional geometric morphometric analysis shows that Proviverra typica had a basal carnassialised dentition, contrasting with the derived carnassials of later hyaenodonts such as Hyaenodon filholi and Pterodon dasyuroides.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Rütimeyer, L. (1862.) "Eocaene Säugetiere aus dem Gebiet des Schweizerischen Jura." Neue Denkschriften der allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 19, 1–98.
- ↑ J. Alroy (2002.) "Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals."
- ↑ Rütimeyer L. (1891.) "Die eocäne Säugethier-Welt von Egerkingen. Abhandlungen der Schweizerischen Palaeontologischen Gesellschaft, 18, 1–153.
- ↑ H. W. Matthes (1952.) "I. Abhandlung: Die Creodontier aus der mitteleozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltals (I. Part: The Creodonta from the Middle Eocene of Geiseltal)." Hallesches Jahrbuch für mitteldeutsche Erdgeschichte 1:201-240
- ↑ "Proviverra". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
- ↑ Morgane Dubied; Floréal Solé; Bastien Mennecart (2019). "The cranium of Provierra typica (Mammalia, Hyaenodonta) and its impact on hyaenodont phylogeny and endocranial evolution". Palaeontology. 62 (6): 983–1001. Bibcode:2019Palgy..62..983D. doi:10.1111/pala.12437. S2CID 201310577.
- ↑ Lang, Andreas Johann; Engler, Thomas; Martin, Thomas (14 November 2021). "Dental topographic and three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of carnassialization in different clades of carnivorous mammals ( Dasyuromorphia, Carnivora, Hyaenodonta )". Journal of Morphology. 283 (1): 91–108. doi:10.1002/jmor.21429. ISSN 0362-2525. Retrieved 17 January 2026 – via Wiley Online Library.
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