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• Here in this book ("Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level" By Malcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell) on page 229, Ictidailurus [Kretzoi, 1945] is metioned as a synonym for genus Nimravus. The Explaner (talk) 10:03, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

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In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.

I hope I'm wrong but I'm reverting until I hear why it triggered Copy Patrol.

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Pantolestids as pholidotamorphs

Hi, re [1]: is this outdated/superseded? regards, --Middle 8 (s)talk • privacy 21:03, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

• Hello there. Well acording to a modern studies, family Pantolestidae is member of suborder Pantolesta (in order Cimolesta), and those mammals are eutherians but not memebers of infraclass Placentalia, just close relatives. In clade Pholidotamorpha (who are a placental mammals) there are only 2 orders: Pholidota and Palaeanodonta. Halliday (2015.) paper is not good studie, and there are some weird suggestions about mammalian relations (for example primates are close relatives of sloths and anteaters) that are in contradiction with DNA research. --The Explaner (talk) 22:53, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for that illuminating... explanation; you do your username justice. :-)   And thank you for contributing in general as a subject-area expert. I find this stuff fascinating and have been reading and doing a bit of wikignoming, hence this question: is the cladogram at Musteloidea correct (Mephitidae branching off first)? Someone keeps changing it to this (mustelids branching off first), and always gets reverted because they provide no source... but are they right, and if so, which source(s) should be used instead of Law et. al. (2018)? --Middle 8 (s)talk • privacy 18:57, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

P.S., I should really be asking such questions at a biology noticeboard -- I don't mean to badger you (speaking of mustelids). :-) Happy editing --Middle 8 (s)talk • privacy 05:18, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

2018. paper is correct far as I know. The Explaner (talk) 09:14, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. I attempted to fix the inaccuracies at Pantolestidae per your comments, but please feel free to improve it if necessary. --Middle 8 (s)talk • privacy 17:22, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

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Namely, your use of cladograms falls far outside of what is acceptable- not a single source I can find supports the cladograms that you have scattered throughout the creodonts and early carnivorans. SilverTiger12 (talk) 21:52, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

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November 2023

I can find no evidence whatever of Boualitomidae being a recognised taxon. I have checked a number of references that you posted mentioning it, and none of them mentioned Boualitomidae. I have made my own searches, and found no mention of it in any reliable academic source; all I found was on unreliable sources such as wikis, many of them explicitly indicating that the information is taken from Wikipedia. It is possible that you have found the information on such a site, believed it, and copied it to Wikipedia, though it does look as though alternatively you may have made it up yourself. However, it doesn't really matter which of those is true, because either way you have been posting information into Wikipedia which is not reliable, whether intentionally or not. From now on do not add any content to any Wikipedia article without providing a citation to a reliable source; if you do so you are likely to be blocked from editing by an administrator. Naturally if you do know of a reliable source for Boualitomidae, which I have missed, then please let me know. JBW (talk) 16:53, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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