Proviverra

Proviverra
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
Proviverra typica skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: Hyaenodontoidea
Clade: Proviverrinae
Genus: Proviverra
Rutimeyer, 1862
Type species
Proviverra typica
Rutimeyer, 1862
Synonyms
synonyms of genus:
  • Prorhyzaena (Rütimeyer, 1891)
synonyms of species:
  • P. typica:
    • Prorhyzaena egerkingiae (Rütimeyer, 1891)

Proviverra ("before civet") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from the extinct clade Proviverrinae within the extinct superfamily Hyaenodontoidea, itself within the extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived during the Middle Eocene in Europe.