Proviverrinae

Also known as Proviverrida, Proviverrini

Proviverrinae ("before civets") is an extinct clade of placental mammals within superfamily Hyaenodontoidea in extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to late Eocene deposits in Europe. Their decline was thought to have been the result with of competition with carnivorans, hyaenodontines, and hyainailourines.