Table 1.

Terminal Ferae species used for ancestral state reconstructions. Body mass and diet information adapted from [25,26]. Daggers indicate extinct species.

family	species	body mass range (kg)	diet	feeding morphology
Mephitidae	M. mephitis	0.7–6.3	rodents, birds and insects	generalist
Procyonidae	P. lotor	1.8–10.4	wide range	generalist
Canidae	C. lupus	23–80	large mammals	hypercarnivore
Felidae	P. pardus	17–65	large mammals	hypercarnivore
Herpestidae	H. javanicus	0.43–0.65	19–37% vertebrates, 63–70% non-vertebrates	generalist
‘stem Carnivoramorpha’	†O. herpestoides	n.a.	n.a.	generalista
Hyaenodontidae	†T. velox	n.a.	n.a.	hypercarnivorea

^aBased on [22].