Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Parent taxon: Viverridae according to P. Gaubert et al. 2004
See also Ginsburg 1977, Hendey 1974, Mivart 1882 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Africanictis, Arctogalidiinae, Cryptoproctinae, Cynogalinae, Euboictis, Galidictinae, Genettinae, Hemigalinae, Herpestina, Hyaenina, Kanuites, Ketketictis, Leptoplesictis, Lophocyoninae, Megaviverra, Mioprionodon, Paradoxurinae, Prionodontinae, Progenetta, Sahelictis, Vishnuictis
Subtaxa: Civettictis Orangictis Semigenetta Viverra Viverricula
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (6 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Kenya (1), Madagascar (2), South Africa (1), Sudan (1), Tanzania (1), Vietnam (1)
• Pliocene of China (1), Ethiopia (2), India (1), Kenya (2), Morocco (1), South Africa (3), Tanzania (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of China (6), France (10), Germany (3), Hungary (1), India (1), Kenya (2), Libya (1), Namibia (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Thailand (1)
Total: 61 collections including 67 occurrences