Protictitherium crassum (Kretzoi 1938; Koufos and Konidaris 2011; Miocene-Pliocene) is traditionally considered a hyena-like civet. Civets are not related to hyenas in the LRT. Here Protictitherium nests with bears and dogs, like the wolf, Canis and the aardwolf, Proteles, where the lack of large teeth is a feature, not a taphonomic anomaly.

Melursus ursinus (originally Bradypus ursinus Shaw 1791, Meyer 1793) is the extant sloth bear, restricted to India and nesting with Protictitherium.