Palaeonictinae late | |
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skull of Palaeonictis occidentalis | |
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parts of lower jaw of Ambloctonus sinosus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
Order: | †Oxyaenodonta |
Family: | †Oxyaenidae |
Subfamily: | †Palaeonictinae Denison, 1938[1] |
Type genus | |
†Palaeonictis de Blainville, 1842
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Palaeonictinae ("ancient weasels") is an extinct subfamily of placental mammals from extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived from the late Paleocene to early Eocene of Europe and North America.[7][8][9]