Palaeonictinae Explained

Palaeonictinae ("ancient weasels") is an extinct subfamily of placental mammals from extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived from the late Paleocene to early Eocene of Europe and North America.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

• Subfamily: †Palaeonictinae (Denison, 1938)
  • Genus: †Ambloctonus (Cope, 1875)
    • †Ambloctonus major (Denison, 1938)
    • †Ambloctonus priscus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
    • †Ambloctonus sinosus (Cope, 1875)
  • Genus: †Dipsalodon ^{(paraphyletic genus)} (Jepsen, 1930)
    • †Dipsalodon churchillorum (Rose, 1981)
    • †Dipsalodon matthewi (Jepsen, 1930)
  • Genus: †Palaeonictis (de Blainville, 1842)
    • †Palaeonictis gigantea (de Blainville, 1842)
    • †Palaeonictis occidentalis (Osborn, 1892)
    • †Palaeonictis peloria (Rose, 1981)
    • †Palaeonictis wingi (Chester, 2010)

Notes and References

1. Gunnel . Gregg F. . Gingerich, Philip D. . Systematics and evolution of late Paleocene and early Eocene Oxyaenidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming . Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology . 28 . 7 . 141–180 . The University of Michigan . 1991 .
2. Book: McKenna . Malcolm C. . Bell . Susan K. . Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level . 16 March 2015 . 1997 . Columbia University Press . New York . 978-0-231-11012-9.
3. Stephen G. B. Chester . Jonathan I. Bloch . Ross Secord . Doug M. Boyer . 2010 . A new small bodied species of Palaeonictis (Creodonta, Oxyaenidae) from the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum . Journal of Mammalian Evolution . 17 . 4 . 227–243 . 10.1007/s10914-010-9141-y. 15058311 .