Quercygale

Quercygale; Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivoramorpha
Family:	†Miacidae
Genus:	†Quercygale
Type species
	Quercygale angustidens;
Species
	Q. angustidens; Q. hastinsiae; Q. helvetica;

Quercygale is an extinct genus of Miacidae, primitive carnivores that lived during the Eocene.^[1] The genus contains three species: Q. angustidens (Filhol, 1872), from Quercy (France), Q. hastingsae (Davies, 1884), from Headon Bedes, England and Q. helvetica, from Switzerland (Rütimeyer, 1862). Considered as the most advanced miacoid, Quercygale seems to have been an immigrant from Asia, after the Grand Coupure. Its correct status is dubious, but it could have been close the base of the Carnivora, predating the split between Feliformia and Caniformia.

Sources

^ McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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[1] McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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