Tisisthenes Martin 1973 (mustelid carnivore)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: R. A. Martin. 1973. Description of a New Genus of Weasel from the Pleistocene of South Dakota. Journal of Mammalogy 54(4):924-929

Parent taxon: Mustelinae according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980

See also Carroll 1988 and Martin 1973

Sister taxa: Dinogale, Lartetictis, Legionarictis, Mustela, Mustelini, Neogale

Subtaxa: Tisisthenes parvus

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Java (Quaternary of South Dakota)

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