Extinct genus of carnivores
Quercygale
Temporal range: 55.2–35.0 Ma Early to Late Eocene
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skull of species Quercygale angustidens
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Class:
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Mammalia
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Clade:
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Pan-Carnivora
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Clade:
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Carnivoramorpha
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Clade:
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Carnivoraformes
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Family:
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†Quercygalidae Kretzoi, 1945[1]
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Genus:
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†Quercygale Kretzoi, 1945
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Type species
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†Quercygale angustidens
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Species
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Synonyms
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- Humbertia (De Beaumont, 1965)[2]
- Humbertia angustidens (De Beaumont, 1965)
- Procynodictis euzetensis (Depéret, 1917)[3]
- Viverra angustidens (Filhol, 1872)[4]
- Viverravus euzetensis (Depéret, 1917)
- Viverra hastingsae (Davies, 1884)
- Viverravus hastingsae (Depéret, 1917)
- Cynodon helveticus (Rütimeyer, 1862)
- Humbertia helvetica (De Beaumont, 1965)
- Miacis macintyri (Van Valen, 1965)[5]
- Quercygale macintyri (Russell, 1982)[6]
- Tapocyon macintyri (Russell, 1982)
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Quercygale ("weasel from Quercy") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from the clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in Europe during the early to late Eocene.[7][8]
- ^ Miklos Kretzoi (1945) "Bemerkungen über das Raubtiersystem." Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Budapest, vol. 38, pp. 59–83.
- ^ Gérard de Beaumont (1965.) "Les Viverravinae (Carnivora, Miacidae) de l’Eocène de la Suisse." Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 69:133–146.
- ^ Depéret C. (1917.) "Monographie de la faune de mammiféres fossiles du Ludien inférieur d'Euget-les-Bains (Gard)." Ann. Univ. Lyon (N. S.), Div. 1, 40, 1–288.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
- ^ Van Valen, Leigh (1965). "Some European Proviverrini (Mammalia, Deltatheridia)" (PDF). Palaeontology. 8: 638–665.
- ^ Donald E. Russell, Jean-Louis Hartenberger, Charles Pomerol, Sevket Sen, Norbert Schmidt-Kittler and Monique Vianey-Liaud (1982.) "Mammals and stratigraphy: the Paleocene of Europe" Palaeovertebrata Vol. 12
- ^ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9.
- ^ "Quercygale". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 11 March 2017.