Fissipedia

Fissipedia ("split feet") or land-dweling carnivorans is a former suborder and paraphyletic group of placental mammals comprising the largely land-based families of the order Carnivora. In some former taxonomic classifications, Pinnipedia was treated as an suborder in order Carnivora alongside Fissipedia and Creodonta. rather than as a subgroup of "dog-like" carnivorans.

==Classification== {|class="wikitable" |- style="vertical-align:top;" | Suborder: Fissipedia (land-dweling carnivorans) Superfamily: Canoidea ("dog-like" carnivorans) Family: Canidae [a group with dogs and amphicyonids as its members at that time] Family: Mustelidae [a group with weasels, ferrets, badgers, otters and skunks as its members at that time] Family: Procyonidae [a group with raccoons and red panda as its members at that time] Family: Ursidae (bears) Superfamily: Feloidea ("cat-like" carnivorans) Family: Felidae [a group with cats, nimravids and genus Hyainailouros as its members at that time] Family: Hyaenidae (hyenas) Family: Viverridae [a group with civets and mongooses as its members at that time] Superfamily: †Miacoidea Family: †Miacidae [a group with representatives of families Miacidae and Viverravidae as its members at that time]