Pelycictis Cope 1896 (badger)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1896. New and Little Known Mammalia from the Port Kennedy Bone Deposit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48:378-394

Parent taxon: Melinae according to O. P. Hay 1902

Sister taxa: Arctomeles, Arctonyx, Meles, Melodon, Promeles, Taxodon

Subtaxa: none

Type: Pelycictis lobulatus

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pelycictis in the database

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