Mammalia - Ferae - Viverravidae

Alternative spelling: Protictoides

Full reference: J. J. Flynn and H. Galiano. 1982. Phylogeny of early Tertiary Carnivora, with a description of a new species of Protictis from the middle Eocene of northwestern Wyoming. American Museum Novitates 2725:1-64

Parent taxon: Protictis according to J. J. Flynn and H. Galiano 1982

See also Flynn 1998 and Gingerich and Winkler 1985

Sister taxa: Protictis (Bryanictis), Protictis (Protictis), Protictis agastor, Protictis haydenianus, Protictis minor, Protictis paralus, Protictis simpsoni

Subtaxa: Protictoides aprophatos

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Tepee Trail Bone Bed A (Eocene of Wyoming)

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