Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Parent taxon: Viverridae according to Gray 1864
Sister taxa: Africanictis, Arctogalidiinae, Cryptoproctinae, Cynogalinae, Euboictis, Galidictinae, Hemigalinae, Herpestina, Hyaenina, Kanuites, Ketketictis, Leptoplesictis, Lophocyoninae, Megaviverra, Mioprionodon, Paradoxurinae, Prionodontinae, Progenetta, Sahelictis, Vishnuictis, Viverrinae
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Cyprus (1 collection), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (2), South Africa (13), Sudan (4), Tanzania (1), Zambia (2)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Morocco (1), Senegal (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Kenya (3), Morocco (1)
Total: 36 collections including 38 occurrences