Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Full reference: J. E. Storer. 2004. A new species of Mustela (Mammalia; Carnivora; Mustelidae) from the Fort Selkirk fauna (Early Pleistocene) of Yukon Territory, Canada. Paludicola 4(4):151-155
Belongs to Mustela according to J. E. Storer 2004
Sister taxa: Mustela (Lutreola), Mustela (Putorius), Mustela aistoodonnivalis, Mustela altaica, Mustela erminea, Mustela eversmanni, Mustela furo, Mustela haidarum, Mustela itatsi, Mustela kathiah, Mustela lutreola, Mustela meltoni, Mustela nigripes, Mustela nivalis, Mustela nudipes, Mustela ogygia, Mustela pachygnatha, Mustela palaeattica, Mustela palermina, Mustela praenivalis, Mustela putorius, Mustela rexroadensis, Mustela richardsonii, Mustela sibirica, Mustela spelaea, Mustela strigidorsa
Type specimen: YG 95.4, a mandible (left dentary fragment with p3-m1). Its type locality is Fort Selkirk, which is in a Pleistocene loess siliciclastic in Canada.
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution: found only at Fort Selkirk
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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