Palaeonictis

Palaeonictis
Temporal range: Late Paleocene - Early Eocene
skull of Palaeonictis occidentalis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Order: †Oxyaenodonta
Family: †Oxyaenidae
Subfamily: †Palaeonictinae
Genus: †Palaeonictis
de Blainville, 1842
Type species
†Palaeonictis gigantea
de Blainville, 1842
Species
  • †P. gigantea (de Blainville, 1842)
  • †P. occidentalis (Osborn, 1892)
  • †P. peloria (Rose, 1981)
  • †P. wingi (Chester, 2010)
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Dormaalodon (Lange-Badré, 1987)
  • Palaeonyctis (Cope, 1880)
synonyms of species:
  • P. gigantea:
    • Dormaalodon woutersi (Lange-Badré, 1987)
    • Oxyaena casieri (Quinet, 1966)
    • Palaeonyctis gigantea (Cope, 1880)

Palaeonictis ("ancient weasel") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Palaeonictinae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in Europe and North America from the late Paleocene to the early Eocene.

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