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Melinae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	65307	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=65307

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelidae : Melinae

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
suborder	Caniformia	Kretzoi 1943
family	Mustelidae	Fischer 1817
subfamily	Melinae	Burmeister 1872

Common Name

badger

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Melinae	subfamily	belongs to Mustelidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Melinae	subfamily	belongs to Mustelidae	stated with evidence	Baskin, 1998
Melinae	subfamily	belongs to Mustelidae	stated without evidence	Arribas and Garrido, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

17 (23%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore, omnivore (based on Mustelidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. A. Baskin. 1998. Mustelidae. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lutrini tribe	listed (PBDB)		51	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Mephitini tribe	listed (PBDB)	Skunk	77	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Arctomeles ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	10.3 Ma Miocene	4.20 Ma Pliocene
Arctonyx genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Hog Badger	9	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Meles genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Badger	61	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Melodon ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Pelycictis ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Promeles ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	11.6 Ma Miocene	8.70 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1872	Melinae Burmeister
1902	Melinae Hay p. 765
1970	Melinae Bjork p. 28
1980	Melinae Kurten and Anderson p. 157
1982	Melinae Muizon p. 262 figs. Fig. 1
1998	Melinae Baskin p. 159
2004	Melinae Marmi et al. p. 491
2007	Melinae Arribas and Garrido p. 547
2009	Melinae Baryshnikov p. 79

References

Baskin J. A. (1998) Mustelidae, Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America, 152-173

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Bjork P. R. (1970) The Carnivora of the Hagerman Local Fauna (Late Pliocene) of Southwestern Idaho, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 60 7, 3-54

Kurten B., Anderson E. (1980) , Pleistocene mammals of North America, 1-442

Muizon C. (1982) Les relations phylogenetiques des Lutrinae (Mustelidae, Mammalia), Geobios, Memoire Special 6, 259-277

Marmi J., López-Giráldez J. F., et al (2004) Phylogeny, evolutionary history and taxonomy of the Mustelidae based on sequences of the cytochrome b gene and a complex repetitive flanking region, Zoologica Scripta 33 6, 481-499

Arribas A., Garrido G. (2007) Meles iberica n. sp., a new Eurasian badger (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Fonelas P-1 (Plio-Pleistocene boundary, Guadix Basin, Granada, Spain), Comptes Rendus Palevol 6 8, 545-555 doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2007.06.002

Baryshnikov G. F. (2009) Pleistocene Mustelidae (Carnivora) from Paleolithic site in Kudaro Caves in the Caucasus, Russian Journal of Theriology 8 2, 75-95

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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