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Mustelida

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	67878	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=67878

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelida

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Ferae	Linnaeus 1758
-	Carnivoramorpha	Wyss and Flynn 1993
-	Carnivoraformes	Flynn et al.
order	Carnivora	Bowditch 1821
superfamily	Arctoidea	Flower 1869
-	Mustelida	Tedford 1976

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mustelida	unranked clade	belongs to Arctoidea	stated without evidence	Tedford, 1976
Mustelida	unranked clade	belongs to Arctomorpha	stated with evidence	Wolson, 1993
Mustelida	unranked clade	belongs to Arctoidea	stated without evidence	Wang et al., 2005
Mustelida	unranked clade	belongs to Arctoidea	stated with evidence	Wang et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

13 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore, omnivore (based on Carnivora)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. H. Tedford. 1976. Relationship of pinnipeds to other carnivores (Mammalia). Systematic Zoology 25(4):363-374

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Procyonoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Ailuridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Red Panda	42	28.4 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Mephitidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Skunk	117	4.90 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Oligobunidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Bavarictis ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Chaprongictis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Peignictis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Pseudobassaris ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		4	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1976	Mustelida Tedford p. 372
1993	Mustelida Wolson p. 364
2005	Mustelida Wang et al. p. 39
2006	Mustelida Peigné et al. p. 788
2010	Mustelida Robles et al. p. 550
2014	Mustelida Wang et al. p. 292
2018	Mustelida Wang et al.
2020	Mustelida Paterson et al. p. 1322

References

Tedford R. H. (1976) Relationship of pinnipeds to other carnivores (Mammalia), Systematic Zoology 25 4, 363-374

Wolson M. (1993) Phylogeny and classification of early European Mustelida (Mammalia: Carnivora), Acta Theriologica 38 4, 345-384

Wang X., McKenna M. C., et al (2005) Amphicticeps and Amphicynodon (Arctoidea, Carnivora) from Hsanda Gol Formation, Central Mongolia and phylogeny of basal arctoids with comments on zoogeography, American Museum Novitates 3483, 1-57

Peigné S., Chaimanee Y., et al (2006) A new member of the Mustelida (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the Paleogene of southern Asia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 3, 788-793

Robles J. M., Alba D. M., et al (2010) New craniodental remains of Trocharion Albanense Major, 1903 (Carnivora, Mustelidae), from the Vallès-Penedès Basin (middle to late Miocene, Barcelona, Spain), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 2, 547-562

Wang X., Carranza-Castaneda O., et al (2014) A transitional skunk, Buisnictis metabatos sp nov (Mephitidae, Carnivora), from Baja California Sur and the role of southern refugia in skunk evolution, Journal Of Systematic Palaeontology 12 3, 291-302 doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.776647

Wang X., Grohé C., et al (2018) A new otter of giant size, Siamogale melilutra sp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in northeastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total-evidence phylogeny of lutrines, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16 1, 38-65 doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1267666

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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