Subparictis

Subparictis
Temporal range: Chadronian to Whitneyan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: †Subparictidae
Genus: †Subparictis
Clark and Guensburg, 1972
Type species
†Subparictis gilpini
Clark and Guensburg, 1972
Species
  • Subparictis dakotensis
  • Subparictis montanus
  • Subparictis parvus

Subparictis is an extinct genus of carnivoran mammals in the family Subparictidae that inhabited North America.

Taxonomy & evolution

Subparictis was originally described as a subgenus of Parictis for Parictis (Subparictis) gilpini in 1972. It also included three other species: S. dakotensis, which had first been described in 1936; S. parvus, which was first described in 1967; and S. montanus, which was described in the same 1972 paper that named the subgenus.

The genus Parictis was revised, and Subparictis elevated to a full genus, in an extensive re-description in 1996. It is assigned to the early arctoid family Subparictidae as of 2023.

References

  1. 1 2 Clark, J.; Guensburg, T. E. (1972). "Arctoid genetic characters as related to the genus Parictis". Fieldiana: Geology. 26: 1–71. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3434.
  2. ↑ Clark, J. (1936). "The mammalian fauna of the White River Oligocene, Part I - Insectivora and Carnivora". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. New Series. 28: 106.
  3. ↑ Clark, J.; Beerbower, J. R. (1976). "Chapter V, Geology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology of the Chadron Formation" (PDF). Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs. 5: 21–158.
  4. ↑ Baskin, J. A.; Tedford, R. H. (1996). D. R. Prothero; R. J. Emry (eds.). The terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene transition in North America, Part II: Common vertebrates of the White River. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 486–497.
  5. ↑ Wang, Xiaoming; Emry, Robert J.; Boyd, Clint A.; Person, Jeff J.; White, Stuart C.; Tedford, Richard H. (2022). "An exquisitely preserved skeleton of Eoarctos vorax (Nov. Gen. Et sp.) from Fitterer Ranch, North Dakota (Early Oligocene) and systematics and phylogeny of North American early arctoids (Carnivora, Caniformia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42: 1–123. Bibcode:2022JVPal..42S...1W. doi:10.1080/02724634.2022.2145900. S2CID 259025727.