Asiavorator (meaning "Asian devourer") is an extinct genus of civet-like carnivoran belonging in the family Stenoplesictidae.
[2][3] The first remains of Asiavorator to be found were collected in the 1922 field season of the Central Asiatic Expeditions near the Loh campsite in Övörkhangai Province, Mongolia.
[5] Dashzeveg (1996) described a new species of stenoplesictid, Stenoplesictis simplex, based on a mandible (PSS 27-25) from the Ergilin Dzo Formation of Mongolia.
[5] Egi et al. (2016) made the same taxonomic placement for the genus, though they do state that the Mongolian small feliforms (Asiavorator, Alagtsavbaatar and Shandgolictis) appear to form a monophyletic clade relative to the European genera Stenoplesictis, Palaeoprionodon and Haplogale, which independently evolved hypercarnivory.
[8] The oldest known fossils of Asiavorator originate from the late Eocene-aged Ergilin Dzo Formation of Mongolia, suggesting the genus first evolved during the Ergilian age.
Sedimentary analyses suggest the Ergilin Dzo Formation was a floodplain environment with a braided stream network formed by fluvial systems.
[11] In this environment, sympatric predators included the nimravids Nimravus and Eofelis, the entelodontid Entelodon, and the related stenoplesictid Alagtsavbaatar.
[8][12] Most known specimens of Asiavorator were found in the Hsanda Gol Formation, which is dated to around 33.4 to 31 million years ago (early Oligocene).
[13] Many types of small mammals would have coexisted with Asiavorator in this habitat, such as several rodent species, the lagomorph Desmatolagus and the erinaceid Palaeoscaptor.
[14][15] Sympatric predators included several species of Hyaenodon, the feliforms Shandgolictis, Nimravus and Palaeogale, the amphicynodontids Amphicynodon and Amphicticeps, and the didymoconids Didymoconus and Ergilictis.