Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Full reference: J. A. Baskin. 2005. Carnivora from the late Miocene Love Bone Bed of Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 45(4):413-434
Belongs to Leptarctus according to W. W. Korth and J. A. Baskin 2009
Sister taxa: Leptarctus (Pseudoleptarctus), Leptarctus ancipidens, Leptarctus martini, Leptarctus mummorum, Leptarctus neimenguensis, Leptarctus oregonensis, Leptarctus primus, Leptarctus progressus, Leptarctus supremus, Leptarctus woodburnei, Leptarctus wortmani
Type specimen: UF 24724, a mandible (right dentary fragment with c1, p2-m1). Its type locality is Love Bone Bed, which is in a Clarendonian marginal marine horizon in the Alachua Formation of Florida.
Ecology: scansorial omnivore
Distribution: found only at Love Bone Bed
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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