Clade Aeluroidea Flower 1869 (carnivoran)
Parent taxon: Feliformia according to H. N. Bryant 1991
See also Carroll 1988, Flower 1883, Galiano and Frailey 1977 and Hay 1902
Sister taxa: Aeluroida, Alagtsavbaatar, Asiavorator, Didymictida, Feloidea, Nandiniidae, Nimravidae, Palaeogalidae
Subtaxa: Anictis Fejfarictis Haplogale Herpestides Palaeoprionodon Shandgolictis Stenoplesictinae Stenoplesictis Viverroidea
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore