Moghradictis Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | †Stenoplesictidae |
Genus: | †Moghradictis Morlo, Miller, & El-Barkooky, 2007 |
Species: | †M. nedjema |
Binomial name | |
†Moghradictis nedjema Morlo, Miller, & El-Barkooky, 2007 |
Moghradictis is an extinct genus of carnivorous cat-like mammals belonging to the infraorder Aeluroidea, endemic to North Africa (Wadi Moghra, Egypt) during the Early Miocene.
Moghradictis is shown to have an omnivorous diet or more precisely, hypercarnivorous to mesocarnivorous. It is thought to be a member of the Stenoplesictidae family and has only one known species, M. nedjema.
References
- ^ M. Morlo, E. R. Miller, and A. N. El-Barkooky. 2007. Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):145-159
- J. A. Lillegraven. 1979. Reproduction in Mesozoic mammals. In J. A. Lillegraven, Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, and W. A. Clemens (eds.), Mesozoic Mammals: The First Two-Thirds of Mammalian History. University of California Press, Berkeley 259-276
- R. M. Nowak. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World, Sixth Edition I:1-836
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Moghradictis |
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