Suborder Fissipedia Blumenbach 1791 (carnivoran)
Alternative spellings: Fissipeda, Fissipeda
Parent taxon: Carnivora according to H. Gadow 1898
See also Cope 1889, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gregory 1910, Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Lambe 1908, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Savage 1965 and Vidal 1991
Sister taxa: Adracon, Canidae, Caniformia, Eosictis, Felidi, Feliformia, Miacoidea, Monachiopsis, Percrocutidae, Phocidi, Pristinictis, Protelidi, Protoferi, Ravenictis, Ursina, Ursocanidi, Viverra memphitis
Subtaxa: Arctictidae Bassarididae Cynictidae
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution: found only at San Clemente Island (Miocene of California)