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Palaeonictis
Taxonomy
Palaeonictis was named by de Blainville (1842). It is not extant. Its type is Palaeonictis gigantea.
It was assigned to Amblyctonidae by Cope (1880) and Cope (1880); to Palaeonictidae by Scott (1892); to Ambloctonidae by Hay (1902); to Oxyaenidae by De Blainville (1842), Sinclair and Jepsen (1929) and Gunnell (1998); and to Palaeonictinae by Van Valen (1967) and Chester et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Amblyctonidae by Cope (1880) and Cope (1880); to Palaeonictidae by Scott (1892); to Ambloctonidae by Hay (1902); to Oxyaenidae by De Blainville (1842), Sinclair and Jepsen (1929) and Gunnell (1998); and to Palaeonictinae by Van Valen (1967) and Chester et al. (2010).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1842 | Palaeonictis De Blainville |
| 1842 | Palaeonictis de Blainville |
| 1880 | Palaeonyctis Cope |
| 1892 | Palaeonictis Scott p. 311 |
| 1902 | Palaeonictis Hay p. 755 |
| 1929 | Palaeonictis Sinclair and Jepsen p. 171 |
| 1967 | Palaeonictis Van Valen |
| 1998 | Palaeonictis Gunnell |
| 2010 | Palaeonictis Chester et al. p. 232 |
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G. †Palaeonictis de Blainville 1842
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†Palaeonictis gigantea de Blainville 1842
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Invalid names: Dormaalodon woutersi Lange-Badré 1987 [synonym], Oxyaena casieri Quinet 1966 [synonym]
†Palaeonictis occidentalis Osborn 1892
†Palaeonictis peloria Rose 1981
†Palaeonictis wingi Chester et al. 2010
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available