Semigenetta
Extinct genus of viverrid
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Semigenetta is an extinct genus of viverrid. It lived in Europe, China, and Thailand in the Miocene,[1] and was very similar to the extant genus Genetta, but lacked a molar that Genetta still possesses.[2]
| Semigenetta Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Viverridae |
| Subfamily: | Viverrinae |
| Genus: | †Semigenetta |
| Type species | |
| †Semigenetta repelini Helbing, 1927 | |
| Species | |
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Palaeoecology
At the Late Miocene site of Hammerschmiede, S. sansaniensis competed with "Martes" sansaniensis and with Alopecocyon goeriachensis and was the most hypercarnivorous out of the three.[3]
