Proviverrinae

{{Short description|Extinct clade of mammals}}

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|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|56.0|34.0}} Early to Late Eocene

|image = Proviverra edingeri.JPG

|image_caption = Fossil of Lesmesodon edingeri

|image2 = Proviverra typica.jpg

|image2_caption = Skull of Proviverra typica

|taxon = Proviverrinae

|authority = Schlosser, 1886Schlosser, M. (1886.) [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47207#page/333/mode/1up "Paläontologische Notizen. Über das Verhältnis der Cope’schen Creodonta zu den übrigen Fleischfressern."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710020147/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47207#page/333/mode/1up |date=10 July 2022 }} Morphologische Jahrbuch 12: 287–294.

|type_genus = †Proviverra

|type_genus_authority = Rütimeyer, 1862

|subdivision_ranks = Genera

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

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|Proviverrida {{small|(Haeckel, 1895)}}{{cite book |first=Ernst |last=Haeckel |title=Systematische Phylogenie: Wirbelthiere |url=https://archive.org/details/systematischephy03haec/page/601 |year=1895 |location=Berlin |publisher=G. Reimer |volume=T.3 |language=de}}

|Proviverridae {{small|(Schlosser, 1886)}}

|Proviverrini {{small|(Van Valen, 1965)}}{{cite journal |last1=Van Valen |first1=Leigh |title=Some European Proviverrini (Mammalia, Deltatheridia) |url=https://www.palass.org/sites/default/files/media/publications/palaeontology/volume_8/vol8_part4_pp638-665.pdf |journal=Palaeontology |date=1965 |volume=8 |pages=638–665 |access-date=15 August 2022 |archive-date=2 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402063626/https://www.palass.org/sites/default/files/media/publications/palaeontology/volume_8/vol8_part4_pp638-665.pdf |url-status=live }}

|Stypolophinae {{small|(Trouessart, 1885)}}Trouessart, E. L. (1885.) [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209168#page/13/mode/1up "Note sur le classification des Analgésiens et diagnoses d'espèces et de genres nouveaux."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708230215/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209168#page/13/mode/1up |date=8 July 2022 }} Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques d'Angers, 14, 46–89. [Publ. February 1885. for year 1884.]

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Proviverrinae ("before civets") is an extinct clade of placental mammals within superfamily Hyaenodontoidea in extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to late Eocene deposits in Europe.W. D. Matthew (1909.) [https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/5744 "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706015604/https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/5744 |date=6 July 2022 }} Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289–567{{cite book |last1=McKenna |first1=Malcolm C. |last2=Bell |first2=Susan K. |title=Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLYifwU8bqQC&pg=PP9 |access-date=16 March 2015 |year=1997 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-231-11012-9 |archive-date=10 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240510113618/https://books.google.com/books?id=OLYifwU8bqQC&pg=PP9 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |author=Floréal Solé |year=2013 |title=New proviverrine genus from the Early Eocene of Europe and the first phylogeny of Late Palaeocene–Middle Eocene hyaenodontidans (Mammalia) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=375–398 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2012.686927|bibcode=2013JSPal..11..375S |s2cid=84734979 }}{{Cite journal |author1=Floréal Solé |author2=Jocelyn Falconnet |author3=Laurent Yves |year=2014 |title=New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=171 |issue=4 |pages=878–917 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12155|doi-access=free }}