Viverravidae

Wang and Tedford propose that they arose in North America 66–60 million years ago, spread to Asia then later to Europe, and were the first carnivoramorphans and possessed the first true pair of carnassial teeth.Wang, Xiaoming; Tedford, Richard H. (2008.) "Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History." New York: Columbia University Press In viverravids, the skull is elongated and the number of molars is reduced to two (M1/m1 and M2/m2 are present and M3/m3 are absent).

Taxonomy retrieved from the Paleobiology DatabasePaleobiology Database. Retrieved with [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40992 Fossilworks] (March 3, 2017)

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The phylogenetic relationships of family Viverravidae are shown in the following cladogram:J. J. Flynn and H. Galiano. (1982.) "Phylogeny of Early Tertiary Carnivora, With a Description of a New Species of Protictis From the Middle Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming" American Museum Novitates 2725:1-64P. D. Gingerich and D. A. Winkler. (1985.) [https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/48525/ID378.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y "Systematics of Paleocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) in the Bighorn Basin and Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming."] Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(4):87-128P. D. Polly. (1997.) [https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/48638/ID504.pdf?sequence=2 "Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming."] Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(1):1-53{{cite journal |last1=Solé |first1=Floréal |last2=Smith |first2=Thierry |last3=De Bast |first3=Eric |last4=Codrea |first4=Vlad |last5=Gheerbrant |first5=Emmanuel |title=New carnivoraforms from the latest Paleocene of Europe and their bearing on the origin and radiation of Carnivoraformes (Carnivoramorpha, Mammalia) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=2 |year=2016 |pages=e1082480 |issn=0272-4634 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1082480|s2cid=87537565 }}S. Faurby, L. Werdelin, A. Antonelli (2019.) [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/09/05/755207.full.pdf "Dispersal ability predicts evolutionary success among mammalian carnivores"] Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 461, SE

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• Mammal classification
• Carnivoramorpha
• Miacoidea

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