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Miacoidea

 
Miacoidea
Rango temporal: 66 Ma - 33,9 Ma
Paleoceno a Eoceno


Cráneo Viverravus minutus
Taxonomía
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Mammalia
(sin rango): Carnivoramorpha
Superfamilia:Miacoidea
Cope, 1880
Familias

Los miacoideos (Miacoidea, "puntos pequeños") son una superfamilia parafilética extinta de mamíferos carnívoros, representada por la familia de los miácidos. Eran carnívoros primitivos que vivieron entre la época del Paleoceno a finales del Eoceno entre 66 a 33,9 millones de años.[1][2][3][4][5][6]​ Este grupo ha sido tradicionalmente subdividido en dos familias: los miácidos y los viverrávidos Los miacoideos son considerados como carnivoramorfos basales con respecto al grupo corona, el orden Carnivora.

Filogenia

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 Ferungulata 

Euungulata

 Ferae 

Pholidota

Creodonta

 Carnivoramorpha 
 ? 

Ravenictis

Viverravidae

 ? 

"Sinopa" insectivorus

Miacoidea

Miacidae

Carnivora

Referencias

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  1. J. J. Hooker (1986.) "Mammals from the Bartonian (middle/late Eocene) of the Hampshire Basin, southern England." Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 39(4):191-478
  2. Robert L. Carroll (1988.) "Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution." W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, Plantilla:Page
  3. McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Consultado el 16 de marzo de 2015. 
  4. 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. ISBN 9780521355193
  5. T. J. Meehan and R. W. Wilson (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
  6. K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack (2012) "Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122


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