Alternative spelling: Proviverridae
Parent taxon: Hyaenodontoidea according to F. Solé and B. Mennecart 2019
See also Bajpai et al. 2009, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gheerbrant et al. 2006, Hay 1902, Peigné et al. 2007, Solé 2013, Solé et al. 2014 and Solé et al. 2014
Sister taxon: Hyaenodontidae
Subtaxa: Alienetherium Allopterodon Consobrinus Deltatherium Didelphodus Lesmesodon Minimovellentodon Morlodon Paenoxyaenoides Parvagula Praecodens Proviverra
Type: Proviverra
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Canada (3: Saskatchewan collections), France (12), Germany (3), Namibia (1), Portugal (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (72: Colorado, North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Morocco (1), United States (11: New Mexico)
Total: 110 collections including 118 occurrences