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Palaeogale

Mammalia - Carnivora - Palaeogalidae

Taxonomy
Palaeogale was named by von Meyer (1846). It was considered monophyletic by Wang and Zhang (2015).

It was assigned to Viverravoidea by Flynn and Galiano (1982); to Carnivora by von Meyer (1846), Morlo (1996), Baskin (1998) and Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014); to Feliformia by de Bonis et al. (2019); and to Palaeogalidae by Martin and Lim (2001), Wang and Zhang (2015), Korth et al. (2022) and Famoso and Orcutt (2022).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Palaeogale von Meyer
1873Bunaelurus Cope p. 8
1874Bunaelurus Cope
1902Bunaelurus Hay p. 767
1982Palaeogale Flynn and Galiano p. 47
1996Palaeogale Morlo p. 200
1998Palaeogale Baskin p. 165
2001Palaeogale Martin and Lim pp. 265-276
2014Palaeogale Vianey-Liaud et al. p. 610
2015Palaeogale Wang and Zhang pp. 310-334
2019Palaeogale de Bonis et al.
2022Palaeogale Famoso and Orcutt
2022Palaeogale Korth 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
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderFeliformiaKretzoi 1945
familyPalaeogalidaeMartin and Lim 2001
genusPalaeogalevon Meyer 1846

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. †Palaeogale von Meyer 1846
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Palaeogale dorothiae Macdonald 1963
Palaeogale evanoffi Welsh 2021
Palaeogale felina Filhol 1877
Palaeogale hyaenoides Dehm 1950
Palaeogale minuta Gervais 1848
Palaeogale sanguinarius Loomis 1932
Palaeogale sectoria Gervais 1848
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Invalid names: Bunaelurus infelix Matthew 1903 [synonym], Bunaelurus parvulus Matthew and Granger 1924 [synonym], Bunaelurus ulysses Matthew and Granger 1924 [synonym]
Invalid names: Bunaelurus Cope 1873 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available