Proviverra

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|46.3|41.2}} Middle Eocene

|image = Proviverra typica.jpg

|image_caption = Proviverra typica skull

|taxon = Proviverra

|display_parents = 2

|authority = Rutimeyer, 1862

|type_species = †Proviverra typica

|type_species_authority = Rutimeyer, 1862Rütimeyer, L. (1862.) "Eocaene Säugetiere aus dem Gebiet des Schweizerischen Jura." Neue Denkschriften der allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 19, 1–98.

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|Prorhyzaena {{small|(Rütimeyer, 1891)}}Rütimeyer L. (1891.) "Die eocäne Säugethier-Welt von Egerkingen. Abhandlungen der Schweizerischen Palaeontologischen Gesellschaft, 18, 1–153.

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|Prorhyzaena egerkingiae {{small|(Rütimeyer, 1891)}}

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|synonyms_ref = J. Alroy (2002.) "Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals."

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Proviverra ("before civet") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct clade Proviverrinae within extinct superfamily Hyaenodontoidea (in extinct order Hyaenodonta), that lived during the Middle Eocene in Europe.H. W. Matthes (1952.) "I. Abhandlung: Die Creodontier aus der mitteleozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltals (I. Part: The Creodonta from the Middle Eocene of Geiseltal)." Hallesches Jahrbuch für mitteldeutsche Erdgeschichte 1:201-240{{cite web |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40938 |work=The Paleobiology Database |title=Proviverra |access-date=2011-05-25}}{{Cite journal |author1=Morgane Dubied |author2=Floréal Solé |author3=Bastien Mennecart |year=2019 |title=The cranium of Provierra typica (Mammalia, Hyaenodonta) and its impact on hyaenodont phylogeny and endocranial evolution |journal=Palaeontology |volume=62 |issue=6 |pages=983–1001 |doi=10.1111/pala.12437|bibcode=2019Palgy..62..983D |s2cid=201310577 }}