dentition. As P. orbignyi had especially reduced and simplified dentition, it has been proposed that P. orbignyi may be ancestral to the genus Proteles, including the modern aardwolf. Plioviverrops may be a paraphyletic group.

Plioviverrops is among the limited number of hyaenid genera that avoided extinction during the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, when canids first arrived