Between 1993 and 2007 the Namibia Palaeontology Expedition collected a variety of carnivorous mammals in the Northern Sperrgebiet, comprising six species of Creodonta and the same number of Carnivora. Although carnivoran remains tend to be rare in the Sperrgebiet, some significant discoveries were made including a new genus and three new species. The Sperrgebiet carnivorans range in size from a tiny hypercarnivorous creodont discovered in 2001 at Elisabethfeld, which is the smallest known carnivorous mammal reported from Africa, to gigantic Hyainailouros, the largest known creodont. Several fissipeds belonging to Amphicyonidae, Viverridae and Felidae were collected, but the only ones which are well preserved are two new species of Leptoplesictis.