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Mustela meltoni
Taxonomy
Mustela meltoni was named by Bjork (1973). Its type specimen is UMMP V45457, a mandible (a left lower jaw), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wendell Fox Pasture, which is in a Blancan fluvial siltstone in the Rexroad Formation of Kansas.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1973 | Mustela meltoni Bjork p. 30 fig. 2d |
| 1980 | Mustela meltoni Kurten and Anderson p. 151 |
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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.
†Mustela meltoni Bjork 1973
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. R. Bjork 1973 | a heavy jawed, mink-like mustelid with a metaconid crest on M1. Premolar series crowded and well developed posterior cingula on P3 and P4. M2 very much reduced. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||