Megalictis frazieri Frailey 1978 (mustelid carnivore)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Alternative combination: Paroligobunis frazieri

Full reference: D. Frailey. 1978. An Early Miocene (Arikareean) fauna from northcentral Florida (the SB-1A Local Fauna). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 75:1-20

Belongs to Megalictis according to A. Valenciano et al. 2016

See also Frailey 1978, Hunt and Skolnick 1990 and Hunt and Skolnick 1996

Sister taxa: Megalictis ferox, Megalictis simplicidens

Type specimen: Its type locality is SB-1A, which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in Florida

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at SB-1A

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