Fissipedia

Former suborder of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fissipedia ("split feet") or land-dweling carnivorans is a former suborder of placental mammals comprising the largely land-based families of the order Carnivora.[3] In some former taxonomic classifications, Pinnipedia was treated as an suborder in order Carnivora alongside Fissipedia and Creodonta.[4] rather than as a subgroup of "dog-like" carnivorans.

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Suborder:Fissipedia
Blumenbach, 1791[1]
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Fissipedia
Temporal range: 66.0–0 Ma early Paleocene to present
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Fissipedia
Blumenbach, 1791[1]
Superfamilies
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Synonyms
  • Fissipeda (Blumenbach, 1791)
  • Fissipedina (Pearse, 1936)[2]
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Classification

  • Suborder: Fissipedia (Blumenbach, 1791) (land-dweling carnivorans)
    • Superfamily: Canoidea (Waldheim, 1817) ("dog-like" carnivorans)
      • Family: Canidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with dogs and amphicyonids as its members at that time]
      • Family: Mustelidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with weasels, ferrets, badgers, otters and skunks as its members at that time]
      • Family: Procyonidae (Gray, 1825) [a group with raccoons and red panda as its members at that time]
      • Family: Ursidae (Waldheim, 1817) (bears)
    • Superfamily: Feloidea (Waldheim, 1817) ("cat-like" carnivorans)
    • Superfamily: †Miacoidea (Cope, 1880)
      • Family: †Miacidae (Cope, 1880) [a group with representatives of families Miacidae and Viverravidae as its members at that time]

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