Protictis

Protictis
Temporal range: early Paleocene to middle Eocene
lower jaw of Protictis haydenianus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superfamily: †Viverravoidea
Family: †Viverravidae
Subfamily: †Didymictinae
Genus: †Protictis
Matthew, 1937
Type species
†Protictis haydenianus
Cope, 1882
Species
[see classification]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • P. aprophatos:
    • Protictoides aprophatos (Flynn & Galiano, 1982)
  • P. haydenianus:
    • Didymictis haydenianus (Cope, 1882)
    • Didymictis primus (Cope, 1884)
    • Prolimnocyon macfaddeni (Rigby, 1980)
    • Viverravus haydenianus

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.

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