Civettictis Pocock 1915 (African civet)
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Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Parent taxon: Viverrinae according to P. Gaubert et al. 2004
See also Carroll 1988 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010
Sister taxa: Orangictis, Semigenetta, Viverra, Viverricula
Subtaxa: Civettictis civetta Civettictis howelli
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (1 collection), Kenya (1), Sudan (1), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene of Kenya (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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