Ekorus ekakeran Werdelin 2003 (ratel)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: L. Werdelin. 2003. Mio-Pliocene Carnivora from Lothagam, Kenya. Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa 261-314

Belongs to Ekorus according to L. Werdelin 2003

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: KNM-LT 23125, a skeleton. Its type locality is Lothagam-Lower Nawata Mb., which is in a Tortonian/Messinian fluvial mudstone/sandstone in the Nawata Formation of Kenya.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Lothagam-Lower Nawata Mb.

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