Kanuites
Kanuites Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Viverridae |
Genus: | †Kanuites Dehghani & Werdelin, 2008 |
Type species | |
†Kanuites lewisae Dehghani & Werdelin, 2008 |
Kanuites is an extinct genus of paradoxurine viverrid carnivore.[1] It lived in Africa, during the Miocene epoch.
Description
[edit]Kanuites was about 90 centimetres (3 ft) long, and looked remarkably similar to modern genets. Kanuites was probably an omnivore and may have had retractable claws, like a feline. It may have lived at least part of its life in trees.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Lars Werdelin (2019). "'Middle Miocene Carnivora and Hyaenodonta from Fort Ternan, western Kenya" (PDF). Geodiversitas. 41 (6).
- ^ Palmer, D., ed. (1999). The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 225. ISBN 1-84028-152-9.