Kanuites

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Kanuites
Fossil range: Miocene
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Viverridae
Genus: Kanuites

Kanuites is an extinct genus of civet.

The 90 cm (3 ft) long creature looked remarkably similar to modern civets, especially the genet. Kanuites was an omnivore and may have had retractable claws, like a feline.

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