Subparictis
{{Short description|Extinct genus of carnivores}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Chadronian to Whitneyan
| image =
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| taxon = Subparictis
| authority = Clark and Guensburg, 1972
| type_species = {{extinct}}Subparictis gilpini
| type_species_authority = Clark and Guensburg, 1972
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- Subparictis dakotensis
- Subparictis montanus
- Subparictis parvus
}}
Subparictis is an extinct genus of carnivoran mammals in the family Subparictidae that inhabited North America.
Taxonomy & evolution
Subparictis was originally described as a subgenus of Parictis for Parictis (Subparictis) gilpini in 1972.
{{cite journal |last1=Clark |first1=J. |last2=Guensburg |first2=T. E. |date=1972 |title=Arctoid genetic characters as related to the genus Parictis |url= |journal=Fieldiana: Geology |volume=26 |issue= |pages=1–71 |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.3434 |access-date=|doi-access=free }} It also included three other species: S. dakotensis, which had first been described in 1936;{{cite journal |last1=Clark |first1=J. |date=1936 |title=The mammalian fauna of the White River Oligocene, Part I - Insectivora and Carnivora |url= |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia |series=New Series |volume=28 |issue= |pages=106 |doi= |access-date=}} S. parvus, which was first described in 1967;{{cite journal |last1=Clark |first1=J. |last2=Beerbower |first2=J. R. |date=1976 |title=Chapter V, Geology, paleoecology,and paleoclimatology of the Chadron Formation |url=http://npshistory.com/publications/badl/clark-1967.pdf |journal=Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs |volume=5 |issue= |pages=21–158 |doi= |access-date=}} and S. montanus, which was described in the same 1972 paper that named the subgenus.
The genus Parictis was revised, and Subparictis elevated to a full genus, in an extensive re-description in 1996.{{cite book |last1=Baskin |first1=J. A. |last2=Tedford |first2=R. H. |date=1996 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/terrestrial-eoceneoligocene-transition-in-north-america/common-vertebrates-of-the-white-river-chronofauna/A720D48B3589C003224B3951404ED864 |title=The terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene transition in North America, Part II: Common vertebrates of the White River |editor1=D. R. Prothero |editor2=R. J. Emry |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |pages=486–497 |doi= |access-date=}} It is assigned to the early arctoid family Subparictidae as of 2023.{{Cite journal|doi=10.1080/02724634.2022.2145900 |title=An exquisitely preserved skeleton of Eoarctos vorax (Nov. Gen. Et sp.) from Fitterer Ranch, North Dakota (Early Oligocene) and systematics and phylogeny of North American early arctoids (Carnivora, Caniformia) |year=2022 |last1=Wang |first1=Xiaoming |last2=Emry |first2=Robert J. |last3=Boyd |first3=Clint A. |last4=Person |first4=Jeff J. |last5=White |first5=Stuart C. |last6=Tedford |first6=Richard H. |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=42 |pages=1–123 |bibcode=2022JVPal..42S...1W |s2cid=259025727 |doi-access=free }}
References
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Category:Prehistoric carnivoran genera
Category:Eocene mammals of North America
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