Semigenetta
Appearance
Semigenetta Temporal range:
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Scientific 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
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Species | |
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Semigenetta is an extinct genus of viverrid. It lived in Europe, China and Thailand in the Miocene,[1] and was very similar to the extant genus Genetta, but lacked a molar that Genetta still possesses.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fossilworks: Semigenetta".
- ^ Nagel, Doris. "Carnivores from the Middle Miocene deposits of Grund (Lower Austria)" (PDF).