Raphictis

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Raphictis
Temporal range: 58.9–57.4 Ma
late Paleocene[1]
File:Raphictis gausion.jpg
lower jaw of Raphictis gausion
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superfamily: Viverravoidea
Family: Viverravidae
Subfamily: Didymictinae
Genus: Raphictis
Gingerich & Winkler, 1985[2]
Type species
Raphictis gausion
Gingerich & Winkler, 1985
Species
  • R. gausion (Gingerich & Winkler, 1985)[2]
  • R. iota (Scott, 2008)[3]
  • R. machaera (Rankin, 2009)[4]
  • R. nanoptexis (Rankin, 2009)[4]

Raphictis ("needle weasel") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Didymictinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America during late Paleocene.[5][6][7]

References

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  2. ^ a b P. D. Gingerich and D. A. Winkler (1985) "Systematics of Paleocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) in the Bighorn Basin and Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming." Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(4):87-128
  3. ^ Craig Smith Scott (2008.) "Late Paleocene mammals from near Red Deer, Alberta, and a phylogenetic analysis of the earliest lipotyphla (Mammalia, Insectivora)." Unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, University of Alberta, 1377 p.
  4. ^ a b Brian Daniel Rankin (2009.) "Early late Paleocene mammals from the Roche Percée local fauna, southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada" University of Alberta
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  6. ^ J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.) "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  7. ^ B. D. Rankin (2018.) "New late Paleocene (late middle Tiffanian) mammals from the Roche Percée local fauna, south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16(5):361-393

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