Semigenetta

Semigenetta
Temporal range: Langhian–Tortonian
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,[1] and was very similar to the extant genus Genetta, but lacked a molar that Genetta still possesses.[2]

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.[3]

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.


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