Ictitherium
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| Skeletal mount, Tianjin Natural History Museum | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Hyaenidae |
| Subfamily: | †Ictitheriinae |
| Genus: | †Ictitherium Wagner, 1848 |
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Ictitherium (meaning "weasel beast") is an extinct genus belonging to the family Hyaenidae and the subfamily Ictitheriinae erected by Trouessart in 1897. Ictitherium species were endemic to Africa and Eurasia during the Middle Miocene through the Early Pliocene (12.7—5.3 mya) and existed approximately 7.4 million years.