Asiavorator

Asiavorator
Temporal range:
Holotype limb bones of A. gracilis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Genus: Asiavorator
Spassov & Lange-Badré, 1995
Species:
A. gracilis
Binomial name
Asiavorator gracilis
Matthew & Granger, 1924
Synonyms
List
  • Palaeoprionodon gracilis Matthew & Granger, 1924
  • Asiavorator altidens Spassov and Lange-Badré, 1995
  • Stenoplesictis simplex Dashzeveg, 1996
  • Shandgolictis simplex Hunt, 1998

Asiavorator (meaning "Asian devourer") is an extinct genus of civet-like carnivoran belonging in the family Stenoplesictidae. It was endemic to Asia and lived during the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.

The teeth of Asiavorator suggest that it was omnivorous or more precisely, ranged from hypercarnivorous to mesocarnivorous.