Viverravinae

This article is about an extinct subfamily of mammals. For the extant subfamily, see Viverrinae.

Viverravinae ("ancestors of viverrids") is an extinct subfamily of mammals from extinct family Viverravidae, that lived from the early Palaeocene to the middle Eocene in North America, Asia and Europe.^[3]

Viverravinae 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 Viverravus minutus
lower jaw of Simpsonictis tenuis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha
Superfamily:	†Viverravoidea
Family:	†Viverravidae
Subfamily:	†Viverravinae Wortman & Matthew, 1899[1]
Type genus
†Viverravus Marsh, 1872
Genera
†Simpsonictis †Viverravus †Viverriscus
Synonyms
Viverravidae (Wortman & Matthew, 1899) Viverravina (Kalandadze & Rautian, 1992)[2] Viverravini (Kalandadze & Rautian, 1992)

Classification and phylogeny

Classification

• Subfamily: †Viverravinae (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
  • Genus: †Simpsonictis (MacIntyre, 1962)
    • †Simpsonictis jaynanneae (Rigby, 1980)
    • †Simpsonictis pegus (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
    • †Simpsonictis tenuis (Simpson, 1935)
  • Genus: †Viverravus (Marsh, 1872)
    • †Viverravus acutus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
    • †Viverravus gracilis (Marsh, 1872)
    • †Viverravus lawsoni (Hooker, 2010)
    • †Viverravus laytoni (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)
    • †Viverravus lutosus (Gazin, 1952)
    • †Viverravus minutus (Wortman, 1901)
    • †Viverravus politus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
    • †Viverravus rosei (Polly, 1997)
    • †Viverravus sicarius (Matthew, 1909)
    • †Viverravus sp. [V11141] (Meng, 1998)
    • †Viverravus sp. [Locality Group 2, Washakie Basin, Wyoming] (Tomiya, 2021)
  • Genus: †Viverriscus (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
    • †Viverriscus omnivorus (Beard & Dawson, 2009)