Carnivoramorpha

Carnivoramorpha; Temporal range: 66.043–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N early Paleocene to present
	Diversity of Carnivoramorpha
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Mirorder:	Ferae
Clade:	Pan-Carnivora
Clade:	Carnivoramorpha; Gureyev, 1979 [or Wyss & Flynn, 1993]
Subgroups
	[see classification]
Synonyms
	Carnivora auct. (e. g. Rose, 2012);

Carnivoramorpha is a clade of placental mammals. In line with its definition introduced in 1993, Carnivoramorpha includes all Pan-Carnivora except creodonts. In other words, it includes the order Carnivora sensu stricto (i. e. the crown Carnivora) and its extinct stem-relatives except creodonts.^[4]^[5] The clade corresponding to all Carnivoramorpha except Viverravidae has been called Carnivoraformes since 2010.^[6]

In the second half of the 20th century, the clade now called Carnivoramorpha was simply called Carnivora and it is often still called Carnivora today^[7]^[8]^[9]^[3]^[4]. Note that the name Carnivora can refer to at least three different taxa in the literature - (1) the crown Carnivora (also known as Neocarnivora), (2) Carnivoramorpha (i. e. the topic of this article), or (3) Pan-Carnivora.

General characteristics

The common feature for members of the clade Carnivoramorpha is the presence of the carnassial teeth. The carnassial teeth of the Carnivoramorpha are upper premolar P4 and lower molar m1.^[10]

Comparison of carnassial teeth of a carnivoran (wolf), a hyaenodontid (Hyaenodon) and an oxyaenid (Oxyaena)

skull of wolf

skull of Viverravus minutus

skull of Vulpavus profectus

Classification and phylogeny

Previous use of the name Carnivoramorpha

The name Carnivoramorpha was introduced in 1979 by A. A. Gureyev and was then used primarily by Soviet authors as a taxon (originally superorder) comprising what is today called Pan-Carnivora plus Insectivora (or Lipotyphla, in later texts).^[1]^[11]

Classification around the year 2000

In 1993, Wyss & Flynn introduced a new, much narrower definition of Carnivoramorpha - they understood Carnivoramorpha as comprising the crown Carnivora + all basal clades to crown Carnivora, but without Creodonta.

Clade: Carnivoramorpha (Wyss & Flynn, 1993)

Superfamily: †Miacoidea (Cope, 1880)
- Family: †Viverravidae (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
- Family: †Miacidae (Cope, 1880)
Order: Carnivora (Bowdich, 1821) (crown carnivorans)
- Suborder: Caniformia (Kretzoi, 1943) ("dog-like" carnivorans)
- Suborder: Feliformia (Kretzoi, 1945) ("cat-like" carnivorans)
incertae sedis:
- Family: †Nimravidae (Cope, 1880)
- Genus: †Ravenictis (Fox & Youzwyshyn, 1994) [sometimes considered to be basal Cimolesta ]
- †Carnivoramorpha sp. (UALVP 31176) (Fox & Youzwyshyn, 1994)

Revised classification

Recent phylogenetic studies indicate that the superfamily Miacoidea and family Miacidae are paraphyletic, with "miacids" being more closely related to crown carnivorans than to viverravids. In 2010 Flynn, Finarelli & Spaulding named a new clade Carnivoraformes within Carnivoramorpha, containing crown carnivorans and "miacids" but not viverravids.^[6] The authors defined Carnivoraformes as the clade containing crown Carnivora and all taxa that are more closely related to crown Carnivora (represented by Canis lupus) than to viverravids (represented by Viverravus gracilis).

Clade: Carnivoramorpha (Wyss & Flynn, 1993)

Superfamily: †Viverravoidea (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
- Family: †Viverravidae (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
Clade: Carnivoraformes (Flynn, 2010) [= "Miacidae" + Carnivora] ^[6]^[12]^[13]^[14]
- Genus: †Africtis (Mattingly, 2020)
- Genus: †Dawsonicyon (Spaulding, Flynn & Stucky, 2010)
- Genus: †Miacis (Cope, 1872)
- unnamed clade
  - Genus: †Quercygale (Kretzoi, 1945)
  - unnamed clade (†"Gracilocyon/Oodectes clade")
    - Genus: †Eogale (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
    - Genus: †Gracilocyon ^{(paraphyletic genus)} (Smith & Smith, 2010)
    - Genus: †Oodectes ^{(paraphyletic genus)} (Wortman, 1901)
    - Genus: †Paramiacis (Mathis, 1985)
    - Genus: †Paroodectes (Springhorn, 1980)
    - incertae sedis:
      - †"Miacis" sp. [CM 67873 & CM 77299] (Beard & Dawson, 2009)
  - Genus: †Messelogale (Springhorn, 2000)
  - Genus: †Miocyon (Matthew, 1909)
  - Genus: †Simamphicyon (Viret, 1942)
  - Genus: †Uintacyon ^{(paraphyletic genus)} (Leidy, 1872)
  - Genus: †Xinyuictis (Zheng, 1975)
  - Genus: †Zodiocyon (Tong & Wang, 2006)
- unnamed clade
  - Genus: †Dormaalocyon (Solé, 2014)
  - unnamed clade (†"Vulpavus clade")
    - Genus: †Palaearctonyx (Matthew, 1909)
    - Genus: †Vassacyon (Matthew, 1909)
    - Genus: †Vulpavus ^{(paraphyletic genus)} (Marsh, 1871)
  - incertae sedis:
    - †"Miacis" deutschi (Gingerich, 1983)
    - †"Miacis" exiguus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
- unnamed clade
  - Genus: †Ceruttia (Tomiya, 2013)
  - Genus: †Harpalodon (Marsh, 1872)
  - Genus: †Lycarion (Matthew, 1909)
  - Genus: †Neovulpavus (Wortman, 1901)
  - Genus: †Procynodictis (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
  - Genus: †Prodaphaenus (Wortman & Matthew, 1899)
  - Genus: †Tapocyon (Stock, 1934)
  - Genus: †Walshius (Tomiya, 2013)
  - Order: Carnivora (Bowdich, 1821) (crown carnivorans)
    - Suborder: Caniformia (Kretzoi, 1943) ("dog-like" carnivorans)
    - Suborder: Feliformia (Kretzoi, 1945) ("cat-like" carnivorans)
  - incertae sedis:
    - †"Miacis" gracilis (Clark, 1939)
    - †"Miacis" hargeri (Wortman, 1901)
    - †"Miacis" invictus (Matthew & Granger, 1925)
    - †"Miacis" lushiensis (Chow, 1975)
- incertae sedis:
  - Family: †Nimravidae (Cope, 1880)^[15]
  - †"Miacis" boqinghensis (Huang, 1999)
  - †"Miacis" hookwayi (Stock, 1934)
  - †"Miacis" latidens (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
  - †"Miacis" petilus (Gingerich, 1983)
  - †Carnivoraformes undet. Genus A (Tomiya, 2013)
  - †Carnivoraformes undet. Genus B (Tomiya, 2013)
- ichnotaxa of Carnivoraformes:
  - Ichnogenus: †Falcatipes (Sargeant & Langston, 1994)
incertae sedis:
- Genus: †Ravenictis (Fox & Youzwyshyn, 1994)
- †Carnivoramorpha sp. [UALVP 31176] (Fox & Youzwyshyn, 1994)
- †Carnivoramorpha sp. [UALVP 50993 & UALVP 50994] (Fox, Scott & Rankin, 2010)
- †Carnivoramorpha sp. [USNM 538395] (Rose, 2012)

References

^ ^a ^b GUREEV, A. A. Fauna SSSR. Mlekopitayushchie. Tom IV, vypusk 2. Nasekomoyadnye (Mammalia, Insectivora). Leningrad: Nauka. 1979. p. 39
^ Wyss, A. R. & Flynn, J. J. (1993.) “A Phylogenetic Analysis and Definition of the Carnivora.” in "Mammal Phylogeny – Placentals", Szalay, F. S., M. J. Novacek and M. C. McKenna (eds.). ISBN 978-0-387-97853-6
^ ^a ^b K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack (2012.) "Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122
^ ^a ^b Bryant, H.N., and M. Wolson (2004) “Phylogenetic Nomenclature of Carnivoran Mammals.” First International Phylogenetic Nomenclature Meeting. Paris, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
^ Solé, Floréal; Smith, Richard; Coillot, Tiphaine; de Bast, Eric; Smith, Thierry (2014). "Dental and tarsal anatomy of Miacis latouri and a phylogenetic analysis of the earliest carnivoraforms (Mammalia, Carnivoramorpha)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.793195. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86207013.
^ ^a ^b ^c Flynn, John J.; Finarelli, John A.; Spaulding, Michelle (2010). "Phylogeny of the Carnivora and Carnivoramorpha, and the use of the fossil record to enhance understanding of evolutionary transformations". In Goswami, Anjali; Friscia, Anthony (eds.). Carnivoran evolution. New views on phylogeny, form and function. Cambridge University Press. pp. 25–63. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139193436.003. ISBN 9781139193436.
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^ McKENNA, Malcolm C.; BELL, Susan K.. Classification of Mammals (Above the Species Level). [s.l.] : Columbia University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-231-52853-5. p. 226 et seqq.
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^ Solé, Floréal; Smith, Thierry; De Bast, Eric; Codrea, Vlad; Gheerbrant, Emmanuel (2016). „New carnivoraforms from the latest Paleocene of Europe and their bearing on the origin and radiation of Carnivoraformes (Carnivoramorpha, Mammalia)”. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (2): e1082480. ISSN 0272-4634. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1082480.
^ Solé, Floréal; Smith, Richard; Coillot, Tiphaine; Eric de Bast; Smith, Thierry (2014). „Dental and tarsal anatomy of "Miacis" latouri and a phylogenetic analysis of the earliest carnivoraforms (Mammalia, Carnivoramorpha)”. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (1): 1—21. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.793195.
^ Tomiya, Susumu & Zack, Shawn & Spaulding, Michelle & Flynn, John. (2021). Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world (Paleontological Society Memoir 82). Journal of Paleontology. 95. 1–115. 10.1017/jpa.2020.74.
^ Flink, T.; Werdelin, L. (2022). "Digital endocasts from two late Eocene carnivores shed light on the evolution of the brain at the origin of Carnivora". Papers in Palaeontology. 8 (2)

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[Gur-1] GUREEV, A. A. Fauna SSSR. Mlekopitayushchie. Tom IV, vypusk 2. Nasekomoyadnye (Mammalia, Insectivora). Leningrad: Nauka. 1979. p. 39

[2] Wyss, A. R. & Flynn, J. J. (1993.) “A Phylogenetic Analysis and Definition of the Carnivora.” in "Mammal Phylogeny – Placentals", Szalay, F. S., M. J. Novacek and M. C. McKenna (eds.). ISBN 978-0-387-97853-6

[Rose-3] K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack (2012.) "Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122

[Bryant2004-4] Bryant, H.N., and M. Wolson (2004) “Phylogenetic Nomenclature of Carnivoran Mammals.” First International Phylogenetic Nomenclature Meeting. Paris, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle

[SoléSmith2014-5] Solé, Floréal; Smith, Richard; Coillot, Tiphaine; de Bast, Eric; Smith, Thierry (2014). "Dental and tarsal anatomy of Miacis latouri and a phylogenetic analysis of the earliest carnivoraforms (Mammalia, Carnivoramorpha)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.793195. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86207013.

[asdff-6] Flynn, John J.; Finarelli, John A.; Spaulding, Michelle (2010). "Phylogeny of the Carnivora and Carnivoramorpha, and the use of the fossil record to enhance understanding of evolutionary transformations". In Goswami, Anjali; Friscia, Anthony (eds.). Carnivoran evolution. New views on phylogeny, form and function. Cambridge University Press. pp. 25–63. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139193436.003. ISBN 9781139193436.

[7] THENIUS, Erich. Phylogenie der Mammalia (Stammesgeschichte der Säugetiere (einschließlich der Hominiden)). [s.l.] : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. 1969 (reprint 2019). ISBN 978-3-11164682-4. pp. 346-405, 627-630

[8] McKENNA, Malcolm C.; BELL, Susan K.. Classification of Mammals (Above the Species Level). [s.l.] : Columbia University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-231-52853-5. p. 226 et seqq.

[9] Benton, M.J. (2014). Vertebrate Palaeontology. Wiley. p. 445. ISBN 978-1-118-40684-7.

[10] Floréal Solé & Thierry Smith (2013.) "Dispersals of placental carnivorous mammals (Carnivoramorpha, Oxyaenodonta & Hyaenodontida) near the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: a climatic and almost worldwide story" Geologica Belgica 16/4: 254-261

[11] Kalandadze, N. N., Rautian, A. S. Sistema mlekopitayushchikh i istoricheskaya zoogeografiya. In: ROSSOLIMO, O. L. Filogenetika mlekopitayushschich. Moskva: IMU. 1992. pp. 44-152 (p. 53 et seqq.)

[12] Solé, Floréal; Smith, Thierry; De Bast, Eric; Codrea, Vlad; Gheerbrant, Emmanuel (2016). „New carnivoraforms from the latest Paleocene of Europe and their bearing on the origin and radiation of Carnivoraformes (Carnivoramorpha, Mammalia)”. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (2): e1082480. ISSN 0272-4634. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1082480.

[13] Solé, Floréal; Smith, Richard; Coillot, Tiphaine; Eric de Bast; Smith, Thierry (2014). „Dental and tarsal anatomy of "Miacis" latouri and a phylogenetic analysis of the earliest carnivoraforms (Mammalia, Carnivoramorpha)”. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (1): 1—21. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.793195.

[14] Tomiya, Susumu & Zack, Shawn & Spaulding, Michelle & Flynn, John. (2021). Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world (Paleontological Society Memoir 82). Journal of Paleontology. 95. 1–115. 10.1017/jpa.2020.74.

[15] Flink, T.; Werdelin, L. (2022). "Digital endocasts from two late Eocene carnivores shed light on the evolution of the brain at the origin of Carnivora". Papers in Palaeontology. 8 (2)

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