Fissipedia ("split feet") or land-dweling carnivorans is a former suborder and paraphyletic group of placental mammals comprising the largely land-based families of the order Carnivora. In some former taxonomic classifications, Pinnipedia was treated as an suborder in order Carnivora alongside Fissipedia and Creodonta. rather than as a subgroup of "dog-like" carnivorans.

Classification

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  • Suborder: Fissipedia (land-dweling carnivorans)
  • Superfamily: Canoidea ("dog-like" carnivorans)
  • Family: Canidae [a group with dogs and amphicyonids as its members at that time]
  • Family: Mustelidae [a group with weasels, ferrets, badgers, otters and skunks as its members at that time]
  • Family: Procyonidae [a group with raccoons and red panda as its members at that time]
  • Family: Ursidae (bears)
  • Superfamily: Feloidea ("cat-like" carnivorans)
  • Family: Felidae [a group with cats, nimravids and genus Hyainailouros as its members at that time]
  • Family: Hyaenidae (hyenas)
  • Family: Viverridae [a group with civets and mongooses as its members at that time]
  • Superfamily: †Miacoidea
  • Family: †Miacidae [a group with representatives of families Miacidae and Viverravidae as its members at that time]

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