Ictitherium

Ictitherium
Temporal range: (Vallesian to Turolian)
Skeletal mount, Tianjin Natural History Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Hyaenidae
Subfamily: Ictitheriinae
Genus: Ictitherium
Wagner, 1848
Type species
Ictitherium viverrinum
Roth & Wagner, 1854
Species
  • I. tauricum Borissiak, 1915
  • I. pannonicum Kretzoi, 1952
  • I. intuberculatum Ozansoy, 1965
  • I. ibericum Meladze, 1967
  • I. kurteni Werdelin, 1988
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
  • Paraictitherium Ducrotay, 1903
  • Leptohyaena Depéret, 1914
  • Sinictitherium Zhongjian, 1937
  • Galeotherium Wagner, 1840
Species synonymy
  • I. viverrinum:
    • Galeotherium gen. nov. Wagner, 1840
    • Ictitherium robustum (Nadmann, 1859) Gaudry, 1862
    • Thalassictis gracilis Hensel, 1862
    • Thalassictis viverrina (Roth & Wagner, 1852) Hensel, 1862
    • Ictitherium gaudryi Zdansky, 1924
    • Ictitherium sinense Zdansky, 1924
    • Palhyaena? gaudryi Zdansky, 1938
    • Sinictitherium sinense Kretzoi, 1938
  • I. tauricum:
    • Protictitherium? tauricum (Borissiak, 1915) Schmidt-Kittler, 1976
    • Protictitherium crassum Depéret, 1976
  • I. pannonicum:
    • Palhyaena hungarica Kretzoi, 1938
    • Ictitherium cf. robustum Nordmann, 1952
    • Thalassictis aff. hipparionum (Gervais, 1846) Adrover et al., 1986
  • I. ibericum:

Ictitherium (meaning "weasel beast") is an extinct genus belonging to the family Hyaenidae and the subfamily Ictitheriinae erected by Trouessart in 1897. Ictitherium lived throughout Eurasia during the Late Miocene.