Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Alternative combinations: Enhydriodon lluecai, Enhydritherium lluecai
Full reference: J. F. Villalta Comella and M. Crusafont Pairó. 1945. Enhydriodon lluecai nova sp. el primer lútrido del pontiense español. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 43:383-396
Belongs to Paludolutra according to G. F. Willemsen 1992
See also Berta and Morgan 1985, Crusafont-Pairo and Golpe 1962, Repenning 1976 and Villalta Comella and Crusafont Pairó 1945
Sister taxa: Paludolutra campanii, Paludolutra maremmana
Type specimen: Col. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, a mandible (partial mandible P/4-M/2). Its type locality is Algezares de Teruel, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial gypsum in Spain.
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Spain (2 collections)
• Miocene of Spain (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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