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Protictis
Extinct genus of carnivores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Protictis ("first weasel") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Didymictinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America from early Paleocene to middle Eocene.[4][5]
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lower jaw of Protictis haydenianus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Superfamily: | †Viverravoidea |
Family: | †Viverravidae |
Subfamily: | †Didymictinae |
Genus: | †Protictis Matthew, 1937[1] |
Type species | |
†Protictis haydenianus Cope, 1882 | |
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