Boualitominae

Boualitominae; Temporal range: 61.6–33.9 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N middle Paleocene to late Eocene
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Clade:	†Boualitominae; Borths, 2022
Type genus
	†Boualitomus; Gheerbrant, 2006
Genera
	[see classification]

Boualitominae ("Bou Ali cutters") is an extinct paraphyletic clade of predatory placental mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from middle Paleocene to late Eocene deposits in Africa.^[2]^[3]

Classification and phylogeny

Clade: †Boualitominae (Borths, 2022) Genus: †Boualitomus (Gheerbrant, 2006) †Boualitomus marocanensis (Gheerbrant, 2006) Genus: †Lahimia (Solé, 2009) †Lahimia selloumi (Solé, 2009) Incertae sedis: †Boualitominae sp. [Locality BQ-2, Fayum, Egypt] (Borths, 2022)^[1] †Boualitominae sp. [Quarry L-41, Fayum, Egypt] (Borths, 2020)^[4]

^ ^a ^b Borths, Matthew R., Al-Ashqar, Shorouq F., Sallam, Hesham M., Seiffert, Erik R. (2022.) "The Oldest Hypercarnovore (Placentalia, Mammalia, Hyaenodonta) from the Fayum Depression, Egypt", in "The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 82th annual meeting"
^ E. Gheerbrant, M. Iarochene, M. Amaghzaz and B. Bouya (2006.) "Early African hyaenodontid mammals and their bearing on the origin of the Creodonta." Geological Magazine 143(4):475-489
^ Solé, Floréal; Gheerbrant, Emmanuel; Amaghzaz, Mbarek; Bouya, Baâdi (2009). "Further evidence of the African antiquity of hyaenodontid ('Creodonta', Mammalia) evolution". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 156 (4): 827–846. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00501.x.
^ Borths, Matthew R., Heritage, Steven, Gunnell, Gregg, Friscia, Anthony, Seiffert, Erik (2020) "Persistence of the oldest hyaenodont clade through the Eocene of Africa", in "The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 80th annual meeting - Virtual 2020"