Zodiolestes daimonelixensis Riggs 1942 (mustelid carnivore)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: E. S. Riggs. 1942. Preliminary description of two Lower Miocene carnivores. Geological Series, Field Museum of Natural History 8(10):59-62

Belongs to Zodiolestes according to J. Labs Hochstein 2007

See also Riggs 1942

Sister taxon: Zodiolestes freundi

Type specimen: FMNH P12032, a partial skeleton (an articulated skeleton, almost entire). Its type locality is Zodiolestes Locality, which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Harrison Formation of Nebraska.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Zodiolestes Locality

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