Bryanictis

Bryanictis ("Bryan's weasel") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Didymictinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America, from the early to late Paleocene.[6][7]

Bryanictis
Temporal range: early to late Paleocene[1]
lower jaw of Bryanictis microlestes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superfamily: †Viverravoidea
Family: †Viverravidae
Subfamily: †Didymictinae
Genus: †Bryanictis
MacIntyre, 1966[2]
Type species
†Bryanictis microlestes
Simpson, 1935
Species
  • †B. microlestes (Simpson, 1935)[3]
  • †B. paulus (Meehan & Wilson, 2002)[4]
  • †B. terlinguae (Standhardt, 1986)[5]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • B. microlestes:
    • Didymictis microlestes (Simpson, 1935)
    • Protictis microlestes (MacIntyre, 1966)
  • B. terlinguae:
    • Protictis terlinguae (Standhardt, 1986)

Phylogeny

The phylogenetic relationships of genus Bryanictis are shown in the following cladogram:[8][9][10][11]

 Carnivoramorpha 

Carnivoraformes

 ? 

†Carnivoramorpha sp. (UALVP 31176)

 ? 

†Carnivoramorpha sp. (USNM 538395)

 ? 

†"Sinopa" insectivorus

 †Viverravidae 
 ? 

†Ravenictis

 ? 

†Carnivoramorpha sp. (UALVP 50993 & UALVP 50994)

 †Viverravoidea 
 †Viverravidae 

†Orientictis

†Pappictidops

†Preonictis

†Variviverra

†Ictidopappinae

†Viverravinae

 ? 

†Viverravidae sp. (CM 71188 & CM 71189)

 †Didymictinae 
 †Bryanictis 

†Bryanictis microlestes

†Bryanictis paulus

†Bryanictis terlinguae

†Intyrictis

 †Protictis 

 †Protictis haydenianus 

 †Protictis minor 

 †Protictis simpsoni 

†Raphictis

 †Protictis paralus 

 †Protictis agastor 

 †(Protictoides) 

 †Protictis aprophatos 

†Didymictis

 ? 

†"Deltatherium" durini

†Pristinictis

 sensu stricto 
 sensu lato 

See also

References
  1. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  2. G. T. MacIntyre (1966) "The Miacidae (Mammalia, Carnivora): Part 1, The systematics of Ictidopappus and Protictis." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 131(2):115-210
  3. Simpson, George Gaylord (1935). "New Paleocene Mammals from the Fort Union of Montana". Proceedings of the United States Museum. 83 (2981).
  4. T. J. Meehan and R. W. Wilson (2002) "New viverravids from the Torrejonian (Middle Paleocene) of Kutz Canyon, New Mexico and the oldest skull of the order Carnivora." Journal of Paleontology 76(6):1091-1101
  5. Barbara R. Standhardt (1986.) "Vertebrate Paleontology of the Cretaceous/Tertiary Transition of ansition of Big Bend National Park, Texas (Lancian, Puercan, Mammalia, Dinosauria, Paleomagnetism)." Louisiana State University
  6. McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  7. 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. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2
  8. Flynn, John J.; Galiano, Henry (1982). "Phylogeny of Early Tertiary Carnivora, With a Description of a New Species of Protictis From the Middle Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming". American Museum Novitates (2725): 1–64. hdl:2246/5338.
  9. P. D. Gingerich and D. A. Winkler (1985) "Systematics of Paleocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) in the Bighorn Basin and Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming." Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(4):87-128
  10. P. D. Polly (1997) "Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming." Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(1):1-53
  11. S. Faurby, L. Werdelin, A. Antonelli (2019) "Dispersal ability predicts evolutionary success among mammalian carnivores" Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 461, SE
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