Amphictis

Amphictis was an extinct genus of ailurid that existed from the Late Oligocene to the Middle Miocene with fossils found in Eurasia and North America with a total of nine described species.[1] The interrelationships of the different species as well as their relationship to the other ailurids is not fully understood.[2] Usually Amphictis is classified in the basal monotypic subfamily Amphictinae, but there is not certain as the genus could potentially be a paraphyletic with the Oligocene species A. borbonica being a potential sister taxon to the ancestor of the subfamily Ailurinae (today consisting just the red panda), while a Middle Miocene clade consisting of an anagenesis line from A. prolongata–to–A. wintershofensis–to–A. cuspida being closer to the ancestry of the now extinct Simocyoninae (with A. wintershofensis being the sister taxon to the clade). This is due to the nature of their plesiomorphic nature of their anatomy.[2]

Amphictis Temporal range:
Skull of Amphictis antiqua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Ailuridae
Subfamily:	†Amphictinae Winge, 1896
Genus:	†Amphictis Pomel, 1853
Type species
†Amphictis antiqua de Blainville, 1842
Species
†A. ambigua (Gervais, 1872) †A. antiqua (de Blainville, 1842) †A. borbonica Viret, 1929 †A. cuspida Nagel, 2003 †A. milloquensis (Helbing, 1936) †A. prolongata Morlo, 1996 †A. schlosseri Heizmann & Morlo, 1994 †A. timucua Baskin, 2017 †A. wintershofensis Roth, 1994