Fissipedia

{{Short description|Former suborder of mammals}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|66.0|0}} early Paleocene to present

| image = Fissipedia_portraits.jpg

| classification_status = obsolete

| taxon = Fissipedia

| authority = Blumenbach, 1791Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1791.) [https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/blumenbach_naturgeschichte_1791?p=5 "Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Vierte auflage."] Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, xii+704+[33] pp., 3 pls.

| subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies

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

| synonyms = * Fissipeda {{small|(Blumenbach, 1791)}}

• Fissipedina {{small|(Pearse, 1936)}}Arthur Sperry Pearse (1936.) [https://archive.org/details/zoologicalnamesl1936pear/page/24/mode/2up?q=Creodontina Zoological names. A list of phyla, classes, and orders, prepared for section F, American Association for the Advancement of Science] American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Fissipedia ("split feet") is a former suborder of placental mammals comprising the largely land-based families of the order Carnivora.{{Cite journal |last1=Ledje |first1=C. |last2=Arnason |first2=U. |doi=10.1007/BF02198839 |title=Phylogenetic analyses of complete cytochromeb genes of the order Carnivora with particular emphasis on the Caniformia |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-molecular-evolution_1996-02_42_2/page/135 |journal=Journal of Molecular Evolution |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=135–144 |year=1996 |pmid=8919865 |pmc=}} In some former taxonomic classifications, Pinnipedia is treated as an suborder in order Carnivora alongside Fissipedia and Creodonta.{{cite journal |last=Simpson |first=George Gaylord |year=1945 |title=The principles of classification and a classification of mammals |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=85 |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1104 |pages=350 |hdl=2246/1104}} rather than as a subgroup of "dog-like" carnivorans.