†Taxidea taxus marylandica Gidley and Gazin 1933 (American badger)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Alternative combination: Taxidea marylandica
Full reference: J. W. Gidley and C. L. Gazin. 1933. New Mammalia in the Pleistocene fauna from Cumberland Cave. Journal of Mammology 14(4):343-357
Belongs to Taxidea taxus according to C. A. Long 1964
See also Gidley and Gazin 1933, Gidley and Gazin 1938, Hall 1936, Holman 1977 and Kurten and Anderson 1980
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 7990, a partial skeleton (skull, jaws, eleven vertebrate, and proximal half of the right humerus). Its type locality is Cumberland Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Maryland.
Ecology: semifossorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution: found only at Cumberland Cave