Fissipedia

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Former suborder of mammals

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::summary Former suborder of mammals ::

| fossil_range = early Paleocene to present | image = Fissipedia_portraits.jpg | classification_status = obsolete | taxon = Fissipedia | authority = Blumenbach, 1791 | subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies | subdivision = | synonyms = * Fissipeda (Blumenbach, 1791)

  • Fissipedina (Pearse, 1936)

Fissipedia ("split feet") or land-dweling carnivorans is a former suborder 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.

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References

References

  1. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1791.) [https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/blumenbach_naturgeschichte_1791?p=5 "Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Vierte auflage."] Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, xii+704+[33] pp., 3 pls.
  2. Arthur Sperry Pearse (1936.) [https://archive.org/details/zoologicalnamesl1936pear/page/24/mode/2up?q=Creodontina Zoological names. A list of phyla, classes, and orders, prepared for section F, American Association for the Advancement of Science] American Association for the Advancement of Science
  3. (1996). "Phylogenetic analyses of complete cytochromeb genes of the order Carnivora with particular emphasis on the Caniformia". Journal of Molecular Evolution.
  4. Simpson, George Gaylord. (1945). "The principles of classification and a classification of mammals". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.

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