Mammalia - Ferae - Viverravidae
Synonym: Didymictidae Flynn and Galiano 1982
Full reference: J. L. Wortman and W. D. Matthew. 1899. The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12(6):109-138
Parent taxon: Carnivoramorpha according to F. Solé et al. 2016
See also Bryant 1991, Flynn 1998, Flynn and Galiano 1982, Hay 1902, Meehan and Wilson 2002, Polly et al. 2006, Rose et al. 2012, Tomiya 2011 and Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin 2005
Sister taxa: Carnivoraformes, Dawsonicyon, Oodectes, Tapocyon
Subtaxa: Deltatherium durini Didymictis Intyrictis Orientictis Preonictis Protictis Raphictis Simpsonictis Variviverra Viverravus Viverriscus
Type: Viverravus
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (1 collection), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (2), France (3), Mexico (1), Mongolia (1), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (392: Colorado, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
• Cf2 of United States (2: Wyoming)
• Clarkforkian of United States (93: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Canada (13: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (1), Morocco (2), United States (81: California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 597 collections including 803 occurrences