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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40975	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40975

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Viverravidae : Protictis

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Ferae	Linnaeus 1758
-	Carnivoramorpha	Wyss and Flynn 1993
family	Viverravidae	Wortman and Matthew 1899
genus	Protictis	(Matthew)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Protictis	subgenus	belongs to Didymictis	stated with evidence	Matthew, 1937
Protictis	genus	belongs to Viverravidae	stated with evidence	MacIntyre, 1966
Protictis	genus	belongs to Didymictidae	stated with evidence	Flynn and Galiano, 1982
Protictis	genus	belongs to Viverravidae	stated without evidence	Meehan and Wilson, 2002
Protictis	genus	belongs to Viverravidae	stated with evidence	Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 63.3 Ma
Paleocene

Last Recorded Appearance

46.2 - 40.4 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Viverravidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. T. MacIntyre. 1966. The Miacidae (Mammalia, Carnivora). Part 1, The systematics of Ictidopappus and Protictis. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 131(2):115-210

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Protictis (Bryanictis) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	20	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Protictis (Protictis) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	3	63.3 Ma Paleocene	63.3 Ma Paleocene
Protictis (Protictoides) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	1	46.2 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Protictis agastor ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Didymictis haydenianus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	19	63.3 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Protictis minor ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	63.3 Ma Paleocene	63.3 Ma Paleocene
Protictis paralus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	61.7 Ma Paleocene	61.7 Ma Paleocene
Protictis simpsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	63.3 Ma Paleocene	63.3 Ma Paleocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1937	Didymictis (Protictis) Matthew
1966	Protictis MacIntyre
1982	Protictis Flynn and Galiano p. 24
1998	Protictis Flynn
2002	Protictis Meehan and Wilson p. 1092
2005	Protictis Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin p. 842
2014	Protictis Solé et al.

References

MacIntyre G. T. (1966) The Miacidae (Mammalia, Carnivora). Part 1, The systematics of Ictidopappus and Protictis, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 131 2, 115-210

Flynn J. J., Galiano H. (1982) Phylogeny of early Tertiary Carnivora, with a description of a new species of Protictis from the middle Eocene of northwestern Wyoming, American Museum Novitates 2725, 1-64

Flynn J. J. (1998) Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea"), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 1, 110-123

Meehan T. J., Wilson R. W. (2002) New viverravids from the Torrejonian (Middle Paleocene) of Kutz Canyon, New Mexico and the oldest skull of the order Carnivora, Journal of Paleontology 76 6, 1091-1101

Wesley-Hunt G. D., Werdelin L. (2005) Basicranial morphology and phylogenetic position of the upper Eocene carnivoramorphan Quercygale, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50 4, 837-846

Solé F., Smith R., et al (2014) Dental and tarsal anatomy of 'Miacis' latouri and a phylogenetic analysis of the earliest carnivoraforms (Mammalia, Carnivoramorpha), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 1, 1-21

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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