PROVIVERRINAE SCHLOSSER, 1886

Solé, Floréal, Falconnet, Jocelyn & Yves, Laurent, 2014, New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171 (4), pp. 878-917 : 882

PROVIVERRINAE SCHLOSSER, 1886 ,

SENSU SOLÉ, 2013

Diagnosis

Proviverrines differ from sinopines in exhibiting a combination of apomorphic features such as developed paraconid and wider talonid on P 2, P 3, and P 4, developed entoconid on P 3 and P 4, developed parastyle on P 4, a metacone more developed than the paracone on M 1 and M 2 (except in the primitive Eoproviverra eisenmanni ), and a reduced metacingulum; and plesiomorphic features such as the presence of an entoconid on P 4, and the retention of a bulbous entoconid on molars in the majority of the genera. Moreover, this clade has a double-rooted P 1 (apomorphic feature); only Matthodon differs in having secondarily developed a single-rooted P 1.

Distribution

Europe; Ypresian (Eocene) to Priabonian (Eocene).

Genera

Alienetherium Lange-Badré, 1981 ; Allopterodon Ginsburg et al., 1977 ; Boritia gen. nov.; Cynohyaenodon Filhol, 1873 ; Eoproviverra gen. nov.; Eurotherium Polly & Lange-Badré, 1993 ; Leonhardtina Matthes, 1952 ; Lesmesodon Morlo & Habersetzer, 1999 ; Matthodon Lange-Badré & Haubold, 1990 ; Minimovellentodon gen. nov.; Morlodon Solé, 2013 ; Oxyaenoides Matthes, 1967 ; Paenoxyaenoides Lange-Badré, 1979 ; Paracynohyaenodon Martin, 1906 ; Parvagula Lange-Badré, 1987 in Godinot et al., 1987; Praecodens Lange-Badré, 1981 ; Prodissopsalis Matthes, 1952 ; Protoproviverra Lemoine, 1891 ; Proviverra Rütimeyer, 1862 ; Quercytherium Filhol, 1880 .