Viverravus

Viverravus ("ancestor of Viverra") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Viverravinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America, Europe and Asia from the middle Paleocene to middle Eocene.

==Classification and phylogeny== ===Taxonomy=== {|class="wikitable" |+ style="text-align:center;border:1px solid gray;background-color:#ccccFF" |Genus: †Viverravus |- ! Species: !! Distribution of the species and type locality: !! Age: |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. acutus | (Colorado and Wyoming) |56.2–50.5 Ma |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. gracilis | Colorado Utah Grizzly Buttes, Bridger Formation in Wyoming |54.9–46.2 Ma |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. lawsoni | (Abbey Wood, Blackheath Beds Formation in Greater London) |56.0–55.2 Ma |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. laytoni | (Alberta) (Princeton Quarry, Fort Union Formation, Clark's Fork Basin in Wyoming) |60.9–54.9 Ma |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. lutosus | Colorado Knight Formation in Wyoming |54.9–46.2 Ma |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. minutus | (Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming) |54.9–39.7 Ma |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. politus | (Colorado and Wyoming) |60.9–50.5 Ma |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. rosei | (Wyoming) |56.2–50.5 Ma |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. sicarius |: Colorado Utah Bridger Formation in Wyoming |50.5–39.7 Ma |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. sp. [V11141] | (Inner Mongolia) |42.0–39.9 Ma |- style="vertical-align:center;" |†V. sp. [Locality Group 2, Washakie Basin, Wyoming] | (Wyoming) |47.0–46.2 Ma |}