Africanictis
Sign in to saveAfricanictis is an extinct genus of carnivorous cat-like mammal belonging to the infraorder Aeluroidea, endemic to Africa for approximately , from 23.03 to 11.610 Ma, during the Miocene epoch.
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Vinony files it under Miocene feliforms, Miocene mammals of Africa and Prehistoric carnivoran genera.
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- Africanictis
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Africanictis is an extinct genus of carnivorous cat-like mammal belonging to the infraorder Aeluroidea, endemic to Africa for approximately , from 23.03 to 11.610 Ma, during the Miocene epoch.
Africanictis is thought to have had an omnivorous—or more precisely hypercarnivorous to mesocarnivorous—diet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Africanictis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.