Proviverrinae

Proviverrinae ("before civets") is an extinct clade of placental mammals within superfamily Hyaenodontoidea in extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to late Eocene deposits in Europe.^[5][6][7][8]

Proviverrinae Temporal range: 56.0–34.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early to Late Eocene
Fossil of Lesmesodon edingeri
Skull of Proviverra typica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Superfamily:	†Hyaenodontoidea
Clade:	†Proviverrinae Schlosser, 1886[1]
Type genus
†Proviverra Rütimeyer, 1862
Genera
[see classification]
Synonyms
list of synonyms: Proviverrida (Haeckel, 1895)[2] Proviverridae (Schlosser, 1886) Proviverrini (Van Valen, 1965)[3] Stypolophinae (Trouessart, 1885)[4]

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Clade: †Proviverrinae (Wortman, 1902) Genus: †Minimovellentodon (Solé, 2014) †Minimovellentodon russelli (Solé, 2014) Genus: †Morlodon (Solé, 2013) †Morlodon vellerei (Solé, 2013) Genus: †Parvagula (Lange-Badré, 1987) †Parvagula palulae (Lange-Badré, 1987) (unranked): †Allopterodon/Proviverra clade Genus: †Allopterodon (Ginsburg, 1977) †Allopterodon bulbosus (Lange-Badré, 1979) †Allopterodon minor (Filhol, 1877) †Allopterodon torvidus (Van Valen, 1965) Genus: †Lesmesodon (Morlo & Habersetzer, 1999) †Lesmesodon behnkeae (Morlo & Habersetzer, 1999) †Lesmesodon edingeri (Springhorn, 1982) †Lesmesodon gunnelli (Solé, 2021) Genus: †Proviverra (Rütimeyer, 1862) †Proviverra typica (Rütimeyer, 1862)