Didymictinae

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]

Didymictinae Temporal range: 63.8–39.7 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early Paleocene - middle Eocene
skull of Didymictis protenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Superfamily:	†Viverravoidea
Family:	†Viverravidae
Subfamily:	†Didymictinae Flynn & Galiano, 1982[1]
Type genus
†Didymictis Cope, 1875
Genera
†Bryanictis †Didymictis †Intyrictis †Pristinictis †Protictis (paraphyletic genus) †Raphictis Incertae sedis: †"Deltatherium" durini
Synonyms
Didymictida (Flynn & Galiano, 1982) Didymictidae (Flynn & Galiano, 1982)

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:
    • †"Deltatherium" durini (Van Valen, 1978)