Carnivoramorpha

Carnivoramorpha
Temporal range: early Paleocene to present
Diversity of Carnivoramorpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Mirorder: Ferae
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Wyss & Flynn, 1993
Subgroups
Synonyms
  • Carnivora (Rose, 2012)
  • Carnivoramoepha (Matsui & Kimura, 2022)
  • Carnivoramomorpha (Wyss & Flynn, 1993)

Carnivoramorpha ("carnivoran-like forms") is a clade of placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae, that includes the modern order Carnivora as well as extinct stem-group relatives that are more closely related to Carnivora proper than to "creodonts".