Mioparadoxurus meini Morales and Pickford 2011 (civet)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae

Full reference: J. Morales and M. Pickford. 2011. A new paradoxurine carnivore from the Late Miocene Siwaliks of India and a review of the bunodont viverrids of Africa. Geobios 44:271-277

Belongs to Mioparadoxurus according to J. Morales and M. Pickford 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: K 29-469, a mandible (left mandible containing m1-p4, the posterior half of p3, the anterior root of p3 and the posterior one of p2). Its type locality is Hari Talyangar, Himichal Pradesh, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in India.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at Hari Talyangar, Himichal Pradesh

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