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Extinct genus of viverrid

Semigenetta
Temporal range: Langhian–Tortonian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Viverridae
Subfamily: Viverrinae
Genus: Semigenetta
Type species
Semigenetta repelini
Helbing, 1927
Species
  • S. cadeoti Roman and Viret 1934
  • S. elegans Dehm, 1950
  • S. grandis Crusafont & Golpe, 1981
  • S. laugnacensis De Bonis, 1973
  • S. qiae Wang et al., 2024
  • S. ripolli Petter, 1976
  • S. sansaniensis Lartet, 1851
  • S. thailandica Wang et al., 2024

Semigenetta is an extinct genus of viverrid. It lived in Europe, China, and Thailand in the Miocene, and was very similar to the extant genus Genetta, but lacked a molar that Genetta still possesses.

Palaeoecology

At the Late Miocene site of Hammerschmiede, S. sansaniensis competed with "Martes" sansaniensis and with Alopecocyon goeriachensis and was the most hypercarnivorous out of the three.

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Semigenetta".
  2. Nagel, Doris. "Carnivores from the Middle Miocene deposits of Grund (Lower Austria)" (PDF).
  3. Kargopoulos, Nikolaos; Valenciano, Alberto; Abella, Juan; Morlo, Michael; Konidaris, George E.; Kampouridis, Panagiotis; Lechner, Thomas; Böhme, Madelaine (14 July 2024). "The carnivoran guilds from the Late Miocene hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany)". Geobios. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2024.02.003. Retrieved 6 November 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
Genera of civets, mongooses, hyenas, cats, and their extinct allies
Feliformia
Palaeogalidae
Nimravidae
Aeluroidea
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Viverroidea
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Genettinae
Hemigalinae
Paradoxurinae
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Herpestoidea
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Hyaenidae
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Feloidea
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Herpestidae
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Euplerinae
Galidiinae
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Feloidea
Barbourofelidae
Prionodontidae
Felidae
Proailurinae
Felinae
Machairodontinae
Pantherinae
Taxon identifiers
Semigenetta


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