| Quercygale
Early to Late Eocene | |
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| skull of species Quercygale angustidens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
| Family: | †Quercygalidae Kretzoi, 1945[1] |
| Genus: | †Quercygale Kretzoi, 1945 |
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| †Quercygale angustidens Filhol, 1872 | |
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Quercygale ("weasel from Quercy") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct family Quercygalidae within clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in Europe during the early to late Eocene.[7][8] Phylogenetic analysis of the basicranial morphology of carnivoramorphans suggests Quercygale is the most advanced member of clade Carnivoraformes as a sister taxon to crown group Carnivora, predating the split between Feliformia and Caniformia,[9][10][11] although another recent study has proposed genus Quercygale should be placed as a stem group within Feliformia.[12]
| Species: | Distribution of the species and type locality: | Age: |
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| †Q. angustidens (Filhol, 1872)[4] |  France (Quercy Phosphorites and Sables Du Castrais)
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40.0–37.5 Ma |
| †Q. hastingsae (Davies, 1884)[13] |  UK (Headon Bedes)
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37.8–37.5 Ma |
| †Q. helvetica (Rütimeyer, 1862)[14] | France Germany Switzerland
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47.8–41.2 Ma |
| †Q. smithi (Solé, 2014)[10] | France (Mutigny and Mancy)
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55.2–47.8 Ma |
| †Q. sp. [MNNA 9010] (Astibia, 2000)[15] |  Spain (Basque Country)
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37.0–35.0 Ma |
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