''Messelogale'' is an extinct genus of

Miacidae Miacids are extinct primitive carnivoramorphans within the family Miacidae that lived during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, about 62–34 million years ago. Miacids existed for approximately . Miacids are thought to have evolved into the ...

. Its fossils have been found in

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located enti ...

. There is one assigned species: ''M. kessleri''.

Sources

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*''The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades'' edited by Kenneth David Rose, and J. David Archibald; page 193. Published 2005;

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Miacids Prehistoric monotypic mammal genera Eocene mammals of Europe Prehistoric placental genera {{paleo-mammal-stub