Proviverra
Extinct genus of mammals
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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]
| Proviverra Temporal range: Middle Eocene | |
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| Proviverra typica skull | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyaenodontoidea |
| Clade: | †Proviverrinae |
| Genus: | †Proviverra Rutimeyer, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| †Proviverra typica Rutimeyer, 1862[1] | |
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Description
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]
