Stenoplesictis is an extinct genus of carnivorous cat-like mammals belonging to the infraorder Aeluroidea, from Europe (Quercy, France) and Asia (Mongolia) (S. indigenus), from the Oligocene 33.9—28.4 Ma, existing for about 5.5 million years.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | †Stenoplesictidae |
| Genus: | †Stenoplesictis Filhol (1880) |
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Stenoplesictis is shown to have an omnivorous diet or more precisely, hypercarnivorous to mesocarnivorous.[2][3]
Taxonomy
editStenoplesictis was named by Filhol (1880). It was assigned to the Aeluroidea by Hunt (1989) and Hunt (1998); to the Viverridae by Flynn (1998); and reassigned to the Stenoplesictidae by Morlo et al. (2007).[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Paleobiology Database: Stenoplesictis basic info.
- ^ J. A. Lillegraven. 1979. Reproduction in Mesozoic mammals. In J. A. Lillegraven, Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, and W. A. Clemens (eds.), Mesozoic Mammals: The First Two-Thirds of Mammalian History. University of California Press, Berkeley 259-276
- ^ R. M. Nowak. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World, Sixth Edition I:1-836
- ^ R. M. Hunt. 1998. Evolution of the aeluroid Carnivora: diversity of the earliest aeluroids from Eurasia (Quercy, Hsanda-Gol) and the origin of felids. American Museum Novitates 3252:1-65
- ^ J. J. Flynn. 1998. Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea"). In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 1:110-123
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