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Oaxacagale ruizi

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Taxonomy
Oaxacagale ruizi was named by Ferrusquía-Villafranca and Wang (2021). Its type specimen is IGM 7998, a skull (nearly complete cranium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 1.7 km ESE of Santiago Yolomécatl, which is in a Bartonian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone in the Yolomécatl Formation of Mexico. It is the type species of Oaxacagale.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2021Oaxacagale ruizi Ferrusquía-Villafranca and Wang

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
—Mustelida
familyMustelidaeFischer 1817
genusOaxacagale
speciesruizi

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Oaxacagale ruizi Ferrusquía-Villafranca and Wang 2021
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available