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Civettictis (African civet)
Taxonomy
Civettictis was named by Pocock (1915). It is extant.
It was assigned to Viverrinae by Gaubert et al. (2004); and to Viverridae by Carroll (1988) and Werdelin and Peigne (2010).
It was assigned to Viverrinae by Gaubert et al. (2004); and to Viverridae by Carroll (1988) and Werdelin and Peigne (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1915 | Civettictis Pocock p. 134 |
| 1988 | Civettictis Carroll |
| 2004 | Civettictis Gaubert et al. p. 124 |
| 2010 | Civettictis Werdelin and Peigne p. 628 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Civettictis Pocock 1915 [African civet]
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Civettictis civetta Schreber 1776 [civet cat]
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Invalid names: Viverra poortmanni Pucheran 1855 [synonym]
†Civettictis howelli Morales et al. 2005
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Van Valkenburgh 1988, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tortonian - Zanclean | Kenya | Civettictis indet. (22236) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Kenya | Civettictis howelli (230936) | |
| Pliocene | Kenya | Civettictis civetta (22321) | |
| Gelasian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | Civettictis sp. (21355) | |
| Holocene | Sudan | Viverra civetta (208787) | |
| Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Viverra civetta (22073) | |
| Holocene | Tanzania | Viverra civetta (21690) |