Viverravinae
| Viverravinae | |
|---|---|
| skull of Viverravus minutus | |
| lower jaw of Simpsonictis tenuis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Superfamily: | †Viverravoidea |
| Family: | †Viverravidae |
| Subfamily: | †Viverravinae Wortman & Matthew, 1899 |
| Type genus | |
| †Viverravus Marsh, 1872 | |
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Viverravinae ("ancestors of viverrids") is an extinct subfamily of mammals from extinct family Viverravidae, that lived from the early Palaeocene to the middle Eocene in North America, Asia and Europe.