Xinyuictis

Extinct genus of carnivores From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Xinyuictis ("weasel from Xinyu") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in Asia from the early to late Eocene.[5][6][7][8]

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Infraclass:Placentalia
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Xinyuictis
Temporal range: 56.0–33.9 Ma early to late Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: Xinyuictis
Zheng, 1975
Type species
Xinyuictis tenuis
Zheng, 1975
Species
  • X. tenuis (Zheng, 1975)[1]
  • X. thailandicus (Ducrocq, 1992)[2]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Xinyüictis (Zheng, 1975)
  • Yinyuictis (Huang, 1999)[3]
synonyms of species:
  • X. tenuis:
    • Miacis tenuis (Gingerich, 1983)[4]
    • Yinyuictis tenuis (Huang, 1999)
  • X. thailandicus:
    • Miacis thailandicus (Ducrocq, 1992)
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