Herpestides

Herpestides Temporal range: Early Miocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Superfamily:	Aeluroidea
Genus:	†Herpestides de Beaumont, 1967
Species
H. aegypticus H. aequatorialis H. antiquus H. compactus

Herpestides is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore that was endemic to North Africa and Southern Europe during the Early Miocene subepoch (22.4—20 mya) and existed for approximately 2.4 million years.

Herpestides was named by de Beaumont (1967). It is not extant. It was assigned to Aeluroidea by Hunt (1989); and to Viverridae by Flynn (1998) and Morlo et al. (2007).

H. aegypticus, H. aequatorialis, H. antiquus, H. compactus

Africanictis, Anictis, Asiavorator, Haplogale, Mioprionodon, Moghradictis, Nandinia, Palaeoprionodon, Proailurus, Shandgolictis, Stenogale, Stenoplesictis.

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