Howellictis de Bonis et al. 2009 (ratel)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: L. de Bonis, S. Peigne, and F. P. Guy Vignaud. 2009. A new mellivorine (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the Late Miocene of Toros Menalla, Chad. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 252:33-54

Parent taxon: Mellivorini according to A. Valenciano and R. Govender 2020

See also Valenciano and Baskin 2022

Sister taxon: Mellivora

Subtaxa: Howellictis valentini

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Howellictis in the database

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