Promartes Riggs 1942 (mustelid carnivore)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: E. S. Riggs. 1942. Preliminary description of two Lower Miocene carnivores. Geological Series, Field Museum of Natural History 8(10):59-62

Parent taxon: Oligobuninae according to J. A. Baskin 1998

See also Carroll 1988, Riggs 1942, Sato et al. 2009 and Wang et al. 2005

Sister taxa: Brachypsalis, Floridictis, Megalictis, Oligobunis, Parabrachypsalis, Paroligobunis, Zodiolestes

Subtaxa: Promartes darbyi Promartes fossor Promartes gemmarosae Promartes lepidus Promartes olcotti Promartes vantasselensis

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Type: Promartes olcotti

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (3: New Mexico, South Dakota collections)

• Harrisonian of United States (10: Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Arikareean of United States (4: California, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Oligocene of United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota)

Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence

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