Boualitominae

{{Short description|Extinct clade of mammals}}

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|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|61.6|33.9}} middle Paleocene to late Eocene

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|taxon = Boualitominae

|authority = Borths, 2022Borths, Matthew R., Al-Ashqar, Shorouq F., Sallam, Hesham M., Seiffert, Erik R. (2022.) "The Oldest Hypercarnovore (Placentalia, Mammalia, Hyaenodonta) from the Fayum Depression, Egypt", in [https://vertpaleo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-SVP-Program-Abstract-Brochure_Preliminary.pdf "The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 82th annual meeting"]

|type_genus = †Boualitomus

|type_genus_authority = Gheerbrant, 2006

|subdivision_ranks = Genera

|subdivision = {{center|[see classification]}}

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Boualitominae ("Bou Ali cutters") is an extinct paraphyletic clade of predatory placental mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from middle Paleocene to late Eocene deposits in Africa.E. Gheerbrant, M. Iarochene, M. Amaghzaz and B. Bouya (2006.) [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/geological-magazine/article/abs/early-african-hyaenodontid-mammals-and-their-bearing-on-the-origin-of-the-creodonta/BD8E665118CE4A731B589F75937C4652 "Early African hyaenodontid mammals and their bearing on the origin of the Creodonta."] Geological Magazine 143(4):475-489{{cite journal |last1=Solé |first1=Floréal |last2=Gheerbrant |first2=Emmanuel |last3=Amaghzaz |first3=Mbarek |last4=Bouya |first4=Baâdi |title=Further evidence of the African antiquity of hyaenodontid ('Creodonta', Mammalia) evolution |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=2009 |volume=156 |issue=4 |pages=827–846 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00501.x |doi-access=free}}