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Taxonomy
Miacidae was named by Cope (1880). It was considered paraphyletic by Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin (2005) and Smith and Smith (2010).
It was synonymized subjectively with Uintacyonidae by Hay (1902); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Carnivora by Polly et al. (2006); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Carnivoramorpha by Spaulding et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Creodonta by Cope (1880) and Cope (1880); to Creodonta by Cope (1889); to Caniformia by Bryant (1991); to Canidae by Astibia et al. (2000); to Carnivora by Peterson (1919), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Heinrich et al. (2008) and Smith and Smith (2010); to Carnivoramorpha by Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin (2005) and Friscia and Rasmussen (2010); and to Miacoidea by Hooker (1986), Flynn (1998), Meehan and Wilson (2002) and Rose et al. (2012).
It was synonymized subjectively with Uintacyonidae by Hay (1902); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Carnivora by Polly et al. (2006); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Carnivoramorpha by Spaulding et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Creodonta by Cope (1880) and Cope (1880); to Creodonta by Cope (1889); to Caniformia by Bryant (1991); to Canidae by Astibia et al. (2000); to Carnivora by Peterson (1919), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Heinrich et al. (2008) and Smith and Smith (2010); to Carnivoramorpha by Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin (2005) and Friscia and Rasmussen (2010); and to Miacoidea by Hooker (1986), Flynn (1998), Meehan and Wilson (2002) and Rose et al. (2012).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1880 | Miacidae Cope |
| 1889 | Miacidae Cope p. 876 |
| 1919 | Miacidae Peterson p. 48 |
| 1981 | Miacidae Thurmond and Jones p. 175 |
| 1986 | Miacidae Hooker p. 326 |
| 1991 | Miacidae Bryant p. 67 |
| 1998 | Miacidae Flynn |
| 2000 | Miacinae Astibia et al. p. 237 |
| 2002 | Miacidae Meehan and Wilson p. 1091 |
| 2005 | Miacidae Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin p. 838 |
| 2008 | Miacidae Heinrich et al. |
| 2010 | Miacidae Friscia and Rasmussen p. 52 |
| 2010 | Miacidae Smith and Smith p. 761 |
| 2012 | Miacidae Rose et al. |
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Fm. †Miacidae Cope 1880
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G. †Miocyon Matthew 1909
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†Miocyon magnus Bryant 1992
†Miocyon major Matthew 1909
†Miocyon scotti Wortman and Matthew 1899
†Miocyon vallisrubrae Friscia and Rasmussen 2010
G. †Pappidictops Chiu and Li 1977
Subfm. †Viverravinae Matthew 1909
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G. †Pappictidops Qiu and Li 1977
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†Pappictidops acies Wang 1978
†Pappictidops obtusus Wang 1978
†Pappictidops orientalis Qiu and Li 1977
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available