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Amphictis

Mammalia - Carnivora - Ailuridae

Taxonomy
Amphictis was named by Pomel (1853). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Gulo by Cope (1879).

It was assigned to Mustelidae by Carroll (1988); to Procyonidae by Baskin (1998); to Mustelida by Morlo (1996) and Wang et al. (2005); and to Ailuridae by Salesa et al. (2006), Sato et al. (2009), Baskin (2017) and Baskin et al. (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1853Amphictis Pomel
1988Amphictis Carroll
1996Amphictis Morlo p. 211
1998Amphictis Baskin p. 146
2005Amphictis Wang et al. p. 48 fig. 17
2006Amphictis Salesa et al. p. 381
2009Amphictis Sato et al. p. 917
2017Amphictis Baskin pp. e1293069-1
2020Amphictis Baskin et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
Mustelida
familyAiluridae()
genusAmphictisPomel 1853

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. †Amphictis Pomel 1853
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Amphictis aginensis de Bonis 1973
Amphictis ambigua Gervais 1872
Amphictis antiqua de Blainville 1842
Amphictis borbonica Viret 1929
Amphictis cuspida Nagel 2003
Amphictis milloquensis Helbing 1928
Amphictis prolongata Morlo 1996
Amphictis schlosseri Heizmann and Morlo 1994
Amphictis timucua Baskin 2017
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoreo
Diet 2: omnivoreo
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-26 13:31:06
Modified: 2005-08-26 15:31:06
Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1999

Age range: base of the MP 29 to the top of the MN 5 or 28.40000 to 13.65000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 2828.4 - 23.03France (Quercy) A. nana, A. ambigua (36712)
MP 2928.4 - 23.03France (Aquitaine) A. ambigua, A. milloquensis (37208)
MN 123.03 - 22.4Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) A. borbonica, A. schlosseri, A. prolongata (69617)
Aquitanian23.03 - 20.44Hungary (Esztergom) A. sp. (186636)
MN 222.4 - 20.0Germany (R.-P. and Hesse) A. borbonica, A. schlosseri, A. prolongata (69606)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97France (Maine-et-Loire) A. antiquus (48069)
Early/Lower Hemingfordian20.43 - 15.97USA (Florida) A. timucua (18562)
MN 320.0 - 16.9Germany (Bavaria) A. antiquus (68040)
MN 515.97 - 13.65Germany A. sp. (46955)
Langhian - Tortonian15.97 - 7.246France (Maine-et-Loire) A. antiquus (142149)