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Taxidea (badger)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Taxonomy
Taxidea was named by Waterhouse (1839). It is extant. Its type is Ursus taxus.

It was assigned to Melinae by Hay (1902), Bjork (1970) and Kurten and Anderson (1980); to Mustelidae by Waterhouse (1839), Schultz and Howard (1935) and Carroll (1988); to Taxidiini by Baskin (1998); and to Taxidiinae by Marmi et al. (2004) and Owen (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1839Taxidea Waterhouse
1902Taxidea Hay p. 765
1935Taxidea Schultz and Howard p. 283
1970Taxidea Bjork p. 26
1980Taxidea Kurten and Anderson p. 157
1988Taxidea Carroll
1998Taxidea Baskin p. 161
2004Taxidea Marmi et al. p. 491
2006Taxidea Owen p. 1009

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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
subfamilyTaxidiinae(Pocock 1920)
genusTaxideaWaterhouse 1839

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.

G. Taxidea Waterhouse 1839 [badger]
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†Taxidea mexicana Drescher 1939
Taxidea taxus Schreber 1778 [American badger]
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†Taxidea taxus marylandica Gidley and Gazin 1933
Invalid names: Taxidea americana Gray 1865 [synonym], Taxidea robusta Hay 1921 [synonym], Taxidea sulcata Cope 1877 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: semifossorialg
Diet: carnivoreg
Diet 2: omnivoreg
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Comments: "meat/non-vertebrate group" (Van Valkenburgh 1988) and "terrestrial (fossorial)" (Gebo and Rose 1993)g
Created: 2009-01-04 14:20:12
Modified: 2012-05-14 22:03:08
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Van Valkenburgh 1988

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Pliocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 5.33300 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 4.9 Ma

Collections (66 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9Mexico (Nayarit) Taxidea sp. (212338)
Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9Mexico (Guanajuato) Taxidea sp. (18718)
Late/Upper Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9Mexico (Chihuahua) Taxidea mexicana (18755)
Late/Upper Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9Mexico (Guanajuato) Taxidea mexicana (18713) Taxidea sp., Taxidea mexicana (18740)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588USA (Oregon) Taxidea taxus (226540)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Texas) Taxidea sp. (20033 20051) Taxidea taxus (20060)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (California) Taxidea sp. (19714)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Arizona) Taxidea sp. (19653)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Idaho) Taxidea sp. (19813)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (New Mexico) Carnivora indet. (19970) Taxidea sp. (19981 230461)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Nebraska) Taxidea taxus (19963)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Kansas) Taxidea taxus (19929 19932 19936)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Washington) Taxidea sp. (20062)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Nevada) Taxidea sp. (19965)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8Mexico (Sonora) Taxidea sp. (20322)
Blancan - Irvingtonian4.9 - 0.3USA (Arizona) Taxidea sp. (19652)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (West Virginia) Taxidea taxus (125941)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (Washington) Taxidea taxus (235058)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (Tennessee) Taxidea taxus (93373)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Washington) Taxidea taxus (20307)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Maryland) Taxidea marylandica, Taxidea taxus (20302)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Arizona) Taxidea robusta (19617)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Nebraska) Taxidea taxus (20143)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (New Mexico) Taxidea taxus (20505)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Colorado) Taxidea taxus (20150 20300 20304 20329 20349 20477 20559)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Texas) Taxidea taxus (20164 20530)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Iowa) Taxidea taxus (20556)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3Mexico (Aguascalientes) Taxidea taxus (20283)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (California) Taxidea sp. (20214) Taxidea taxus (20126 20272 20327)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Pennsylvania) Taxidea taxus (20479)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Taxidea sp. (155393)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Idaho) Taxidea sp. (93537)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0117Canada (Saskatchewan) Taxidea sp. (20317)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Oregon) Taxidea sp. (93251)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Idaho) Taxidea taxus (20569)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (New Mexico) Taxidea taxus (76059 76060)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Kentucky) Taxidea sp. (74141)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Utah) Taxidea taxus (20641)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (West Virginia) Taxidea taxus (93332)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Colorado) Taxidea taxus (74953)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (New Mexico) Taxidea taxus (93141 93281)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Taxidea sp. (20644)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Wyoming) Taxidea taxus (93277)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Arizona) Taxidea taxus (93244)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Mexico (Nuevo Leon) Taxidea taxus (71345)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Canada (Saskatchewan) Taxidea taxus (20590)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0USA (Nevada) Taxidea taxus (93291)