Palaeogale
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| Lateral view of Bunaelurus (=Palaeogale) from Matthew 1902 | |
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| 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.