Siamogale melilutra Wang et al. 2018 (otter)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Synonym: Lutra aonychoides Zdansky 1924

Full reference: X. Wang, C. Grohé, D. F. Su, S. C. White, X. Ji, J. Kelley, N. G. Jablonski, T. Deng, Y. You and X. Yang. 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

Belongs to Siamogale according to X. Wang et al. 2018

Sister taxon: Siamogale thailandica

Type specimens:

  • Siamogale melilutra: ZT-10-03-064b, a partial skull (partial cranium with left P3–M1 and right P2–M1). Its type locality is Shuitangba, which is in a Baodean terrestrial claystone in the Zhaotong Formation of China.
  • Lutra aonychoides:

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Shuitangba

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