Africanictis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of carnivores}}

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| fossil_range = Miocene, {{fossilrange|23|11.6}}

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| taxon = Africanictis

| authority = Morales et al., 1998

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = * †Africanictis hyaenoides

• †Africanictis meini
• †Africanictis schmidtkittleri

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Africanictis is an extinct genus of carnivorous cat-like mammal belonging to the infraorder Aeluroidea, endemic to Africa for approximately {{Mya|23.03-11.61|million years}}, from 23.03 to 11.610 Ma, during the Miocene epoch.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=97070 Paleobiology Database: Africanictis basic info.]

Africanictis is thought to have had an omnivorous—or more precisely hypercarnivorous to mesocarnivorous—diet.J. A. Lillegraven. 1979. Reproduction in Mesozoic mammals. In J. A. Lillegraven, Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, and W. A. Clemens (eds.), Mesozoic Mammals: The First Two-Thirds of Mammalian History. University of California Press, Berkeley 259-276R. M. Nowak. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World, Sixth Edition I:1-836