Palaeogale

Palaeogale
Temporal range:
Lateral view of Bunaelurus (=Palaeogale) from Matthew 1902
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Palaeogalidae
Genus: Palaeogale
von Meyer 1846, p. 474
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Palaeogale is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammal known from the Late Eocene, Oligocene, and Early Miocene of North America, Europe, and Eastern Asia. A small carnivore often associated with the mustelids, Palaeogale might have been similar to living genets, civets, and linsangs.