Sivanasua is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammal found across Miocene Europe including Germany, Austria,[1] France, Spain and the Czech Republic.
The first fossils of Sivanasua from Attenfeld, Germany, were interpreted by Max Schlosser in 1916 as a relative of the red panda.
[3] The exact relationship between Sivanasua and other carnivorans has long been debated, with historic hypothesis placing them within Ailuridae, Procyonidae and even Hyaenodontidae.
[4] More recent analysis of the fossil material suggest that lophocyonids were feliforms most closely related to hyenas, represented by Protictitherium in the phylogenetic tree depicted below.
†Herpestides antiquus Viverra tangalunga Hemigalus derbyanus †Legetetia nandii †Kichechia zamanae †Protictitherium crassum †Izmirictis cani †Euboictis aliverensis †Lophocyon spp.