Mustela meltoni Bjork 1973 (weasel)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: P. R. Bjork. 1973. Additional Carnivores from the Rexroad Formation (Upper Pliocene) of Southwestern Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 76(1):24-38

Belongs to Mustela according to B. Kurten and E. Anderson 1980

See also Bjork 1973

Sister taxa: Mustela (Lutreola), Mustela (Putorius), Mustela aistoodonnivalis, Mustela altaica, Mustela erminea, Mustela eversmanni, Mustela furo, Mustela haidarum, Mustela itatsi, Mustela jacksoni, Mustela kathiah, Mustela lutreola, 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: UMMP V45457, a mandible (a left lower jaw). Its type locality is Wendell Fox Pasture, which is in a Blancan fluvial siltstone in the Rexroad Formation of Kansas.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Wendell Fox Pasture

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