Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae

Full reference: M. Morlo, E. R. Miller, and A. N. El-Barkooky. 2007. Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):145-159

Parent taxon: Viverridae according to M. Morlo et al. 2007

See also Morales and Pickford 2011 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010

Sister taxa: Africanictis, Arctogalidiinae, Cryptoproctinae, Cynogalinae, Euboictis, Galidictinae, Genettinae, Hemigalinae, Herpestina, Hyaenina, Kanuites, Leptoplesictis, Lophocyoninae, Megaviverra, Mioprionodon, Paradoxurinae, Prionodontinae, Progenetta, Sahelictis, Vishnuictis, Viverrinae

Subtaxa: Ketketictis solida

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Wadi Moghra MGL-21 (Miocene of Egypt)

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