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Didymictis
Taxonomy
Didymictis was named by Cope (1875). Its type is Bryanictis microlestes.
It was synonymized subjectively with Viverravus by Wortman and Matthew (1899), Wortman (1901), Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Creodonta by Cope (1875); to Miacidae by Cope (1880), Cope (1880), Scott (1892); to Didymictidae by Flynn and Galiano (1982), Polly (1997), Flynn (1998); and to Viverravidae by Matthew (1909), Matthew and Granger (1915), Matthew (1937), Simpson (1937), Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin (2005), Polly et al. (2006), Tomiya (2011), Zack (2012), Rose et al. (2012), Solé et al. (2014), Albright et al. (2019).
It was synonymized subjectively with Viverravus by Wortman and Matthew (1899), Wortman (1901), Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Creodonta by Cope (1875); to Miacidae by Cope (1880), Cope (1880), Scott (1892); to Didymictidae by Flynn and Galiano (1982), Polly (1997), Flynn (1998); and to Viverravidae by Matthew (1909), Matthew and Granger (1915), Matthew (1937), Simpson (1937), Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin (2005), Polly et al. (2006), Tomiya (2011), Zack (2012), Rose et al. (2012), Solé et al. (2014), Albright et al. (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1875 | Didymictis Cope p. 4 |
| 1880 | Didymictis Cope |
| 1892 | Didymictis Scott p. 318 |
| 1909 | Didymictis Matthew |
| 1915 | Didymictis Matthew and Granger |
| 1937 | Didymictis Matthew |
| 1937 | Didymictis Simpson |
| 1982 | Didymictis Flynn and Galiano p. 24 |
| 1997 | Didymictis Polly |
| 1998 | Didymictis Flynn |
| 2005 | Didymictis Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin p. 842 |
| 2006 | Didymictis Polly et al. p. 1023 |
| 2011 | Didymictis Tomiya p. 16 |
| 2012 | Didymictis Rose et al. |
| 2012 | Didymictis Zack |
| 2014 | Didymictis Solé et al. |
| 2019 | Didymictis Albright et al. p. 168 |
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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. †Didymictis Cope 1875
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†Didymictis altidens Cope 1880
†Didymictis dellensis Dorr 1952
†Didymictis leptomylus Cope 1880
†Didymictis proteus Polly 1997
†Didymictis vancleveae Robinson 1966
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Gebo and Rose 1993, Flynn 1998, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Uintan or 58.70000 to 39.70000 Ma
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