Viverravus
Extinct genus of mammals
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Viverravus ("ancestor of Viverra") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Viverravinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America, Europe and Asia from the middle Paleocene to middle Eocene.[6][7][8]
| Viverravus | |
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| skull of Viverravus minutus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Superfamily: | †Viverravoidea |
| Family: | †Viverravidae |
| Subfamily: | †Viverravinae |
| Genus: | †Viverravus Marsh, 1872[2] |
| Type species | |
| †Viverravus gracilis Marsh, 1872 | |
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Classification and phylogeny
Taxonomy
| Species: | Distribution of the species and type locality: | Age: |
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| †V. acutus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)[9] |  USA (Colorado and Wyoming) |
56.2–50.5 Ma |
| †V. gracilis (Marsh, 1872)[2] | USA
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54.9–46.2 Ma |
| †V. lawsoni (Hooker, 2010)[10] |  UK (Abbey Wood, Blackheath Beds Formation in Greater London) |
56.0–55.2 Ma |
| †V. laytoni (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)[11] |  Canada (Alberta) USA (Princeton Quarry, Fort Union Formation, Clark's Fork Basin in Wyoming) |
60.9–54.9 Ma |
| †V. lutosus (Gazin, 1952)[12] | USA
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54.9–46.2 Ma |
| †V. minutus (Wortman, 1901)[13] | USA (Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming) |
54.9–39.7 Ma |
| †V. politus (Matthew & Granger, 1915) | USA (Colorado and Wyoming) |
60.9–50.5 Ma |
| †V. rosei (Polly, 1997)[14] | USA (Wyoming) |
56.2–50.5 Ma |
| †V. sicarius (Matthew, 1909)[15] | USA:
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50.5–39.7 Ma |
| †V. sp. [V11141] (Meng, 1998)[16] |  China (Inner Mongolia) |
42.0–39.9 Ma |
| †V. sp. [Locality Group 2, Washakie Basin, Wyoming] (Tomiya, 2021)[17] | USA (Wyoming) |
47.0–46.2 Ma |
