Fissipedia

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

Classification

 * Suborder: Fissipedia (Blumenbach, 1791)
 * Superfamily: Canoidea (Waldheim, 1817) ("dog-like" carnivorans)
 * Family: Canidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with dogs and amphicyonids as its members at that time]
 * Family: Mustelidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with weasels, ferrets, badgers, otters and skunks as its members at that time]
 * Family: Procyonidae (Gray, 1825) [a group with raccoons and red panda as its members at that time]
 * Family: Ursidae (Waldheim, 1817) (bears)
 * Superfamily : Feloidea (Waldheim, 1817) ("cat-like" carnivorans)
 * Family: Felidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with cats, nimravids and genus Hyainailouros as its members at that time]
 * Family: Hyaenidae (Grey, 1821) (hyenas)
 * Family: Viverridae (Grey, 1821) [a group with civets and mongooses as its members at that time]
 * Superfamily: †Miacoidea (Cope, 1880)
 * Family: †Miacidae (Cope, 1880) [a group with representatives of families Miacidae and Viverravidae as its members at that time]