Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The oldest known mustelid from North America is Corumictis wolsani from the early and late Oligocene (early and late Arikareean, Ar1–Ar3) of Oregon. [1] Middle Oligocene Mustelictis from Europe might be a mustelid, as well. [1] Other early fossils of the mustelids were dated at the end of the Oligocene to the beginning of the Miocene.
Mustelidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes weasels, badgers, otters, ferrets, martens, minks, and wolverines, and many other extant and extinct genera. A member of this family is called a mustelid; Mustelidae is the largest family in Carnivora, and its extant species are divided into eight subfamilies.
Ekorus is a representative of an extinct ecological type of mustelid – large stalking and running mammals comparable to dogs, cats, hyenas, and amphicyonids. The legs of Ekorus are built like those of leopards. [4] The face is short, with a felid-like tooth pattern; Ekorus was a hypercarnivore. Analysis of the elbow indicates that it was a ...
The skull of Corumictis was discovered around 2005 at the John Day Formation in northern Oregon, which dates to between 28.8 million and 25.9 million years ago. [3] The skull was originally believed to have belonged to an ancient feline, but was re-examined by palaeontologist Ryan Paterson of Carlton University in Canada, who concluded that it was a mustelid instead.
Mustelidae, the weasel (mustelid) family, including new- and old-world badgers, ferrets and polecats, fishers, grisons and ratels, martens and sables, minks, river and sea otters, stoats and ermines, tayras and wolverines. Procyonidae, the raccoons and raccoon-like procyonids, including coatimundis, kinkajous, olingos, olinguitos, ringtails and ...
Oaxacagale is an extinct weasel genus of Mustelidae that lived in the Eocene in ... It was found in the same fossil-bearing unit as Douglassciurus oaxacaensi and ...
The genus Megalictis was first described by W. D. Matthew in 1907, and assigned to the family Mustelidae. [2] Two similar genera discovered at the same time, Aelurocyon (Peterson, 1907) and Paroligobunis (Peterson, 1910) were identified as synonymous with Megalictis in 1996 [3] though Paroligobunis was re-established as a separate genus in 1998. [4]
Fossils of Mellivora benfieldi were first recovered from Langebaanweg in South Africa. Additional material probably from this species has also been found in the Middle Awash in Ethiopia . Fossils attributed to this species have also been found in southern Europe dated to the end of the Messinian ; a migration of African mammals into ...