PROVIVERRINAE Schlosser, 1886

Peigné, Stéphane, Morlo, Michael, Chaimanee, Yaowalak, Ducrocq, Stéphane, Tun, Soe Thura & Jaeger, Jean-Jacques, 2007, New discoveries of hyaenodontids (Creodonta, Mammalia) from the Pondaung Formation, middle Eocene, Myanmar - paleobiogeographic implications, Geodiversitas 29 (3), pp. 441-458 : 445

Subfamily PROVIVERRINAE Schlosser, 1886

The specimens described here are classified as proviverrines, although this stem group is at least paraphyletic (Polly 1996; Morlo & Gunnell 2003) if not subsuming completely unrelated clades. Proviverrines lack the apomophies of other hyaenodontid subfamilies, with the Hyainailourinae and the Hyaenodontinae both differing by, e.g., the lack or strong reduction of metaconid on m3 and reduction of the talonid on the lower molars (see Polly 1996). However, separation of subfamilies is not always clear, which is why single taxa have been moved from one to another (e.g., Dissopsalis , see Polly 1996).