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Proviverra is an extinct genus of hyaenodontid that lived during the Eocene in United States and Europe.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proviverra, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4827003	https://www.gbif.org/species/4827003
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40938	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40938

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Hyaenodontidae : Proviverra

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Hyaenodonta : Proviverra

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
order	Hyaenodonta
superfamily	Hyaenodontoidea	Leidy 1869
subfamily	Proviverrinae	Schlosser 1886
genus	Proviverra	Rütimeyer 1862

Scientific Name

Proviverra Rütimeyer, 1862

Name Published In

N. Denkschr. Schweiz. Ges., Dec. 2, 9

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Proviverra	genus	belongs to Hyaenodontidae	stated without evidence	Rutimeyer, 1862
Proviverra	genus	belongs to Oxyaenidae	stated with evidence	Cope, 1880
Proviverra	genus	belongs to Oxyaenidae	stated without evidence	Cope, 1880
Proviverra	genus	belongs to Proviverridae	stated with evidence	Scott, 1892
Proviverra	genus	belongs to Proviverridae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Proviverra	genus	belongs to Hyaenodontinae	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Proviverra	genus	belongs to Hyaenodontidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Proviverra	genus	belongs to Proviverrinae	stated with evidence	Peigné et al., 2007
Proviverra	genus	belongs to Hyaenodontidae	stated without evidence	Solé et al., 2009
Proviverra	genus	belongs to Proviverrinae	stated with evidence	Solé, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

55.8 - 48.6 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

41.3 - 38.0 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Mammaliaformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proviverra

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Geiselotherium pilzi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Geiselotherium robustum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Mimocyon longipes ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	46.2 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Proviverra americana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Proviverra americanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Proviverra pomeli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Proviverra typica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Mimocyon Peterson, 1919	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Hyaenodontidae : *Mimocyon*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1862	Proviverra Rutimeyer
1862	Proviverra Rütimeyer
1880	Proviverra Cope
1891	Prorhyzaena Rutimeyer
1892	Proviverra Scott p. 311
1902	Proviverra Hay p. 753
1919	Mimocyon Peterson p. 48
1952	Geiselotherium Matthes pp. 225-226 figs. 49-53

Year	Name and Author
1967	Proviverra Van Valen
1982	Mimocyon Flynn and Galiano p. 35
1997	Proviverra McKenna and Bell
2007	Proviverra Peigné et al. p. 453
2009	Proviverra Solé et al.
2013	Proviverra Solé
2014	Proviverra Solé et al.
2019	Proviverra Solé and Mennecart

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Cope E. D. On the genera of the Creodonta, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 19, 76-82

Scott W. B. A revision of the North American Creodonta with notes on some genera which have been referred to that group, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 44, 291-323

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Peterson O. A. (1919) Report Upon the Material Discovered in the Upper Eocene of the Uinta Basin by Earl Douglas in the Years 1908-1909, and by O. A. Peterson in 1912, Annals of Carnegie Museum 12 2, 40-168

Matthes H. W. (1952) I. Abhandlung: Die Creodontier aus der mitteleozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltals (I. Part: The Creodonta from the Middle Eocene of Geiseltal), Hallesches Jahrbuch für mitteldeutsche Erdgeschichte 1, 201-240

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

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

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Peigné S., Morlo M., et al (2007) New discoveries of hyaenodontids (Creodonta, Mammalia) from the Pondaung Formation, middle Eocene, Myanmar—paleobiogeographic implications, Geodiversitas 29 3, 441-458

Solé F., Gheerbrant E., et al (2009) Further evidence of the African antiquity of hyaenodontid (‘Creodonta’, Mammalia) evolution, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156, 827-846

Solé F. (2013) New proviverrine genus from the Early Eocene of Europe and the first phylogeny of Late Palaeocene–Middle Eocene hyaenodontidans (Mammalia), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11 4, 375-398

Solé F., Lhuillier J., et al (2014) The hyaenodontidans from the Gour Lazib area (?Early Eocene, Algeria): implications concerning the systematics and the origin of the Hyainailourinae and Teratodontinae, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12 3, 303-322

Solé F., Mennecart B. (2019) A large hyaenodont from the Lutetian of Switzerland expands the body mass range of the European mammalian predators during the Eocene, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 2, 275-290 doi:10.4202/app.00581.2018

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

N. Denkschr. Schweiz. Ges., Dec. 2, 9 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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