Mustela palaeattica Weithofer 1888 (weasel)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: A. Weithofer. 1888. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fauna von Pikermi bei Athen. Beitr Paläontol Geol Österr-Ung Orients 6:255-292

Belongs to Mustela according to A. Weithofer 1888

Sister taxa: Mustela (Lutreola), Mustela (Putorius), Mustela aistoodonnivalis, Mustela altaica, Mustela erminea, Mustela eversmanni, Mustela furo, Mustela haidarum, Mustela itatsi, Mustela jacksoni, Mustela kathiah, Mustela lutreola, Mustela meltoni, Mustela nigripes, Mustela nivalis, Mustela nudipes, Mustela ogygia, Mustela pachygnatha, Mustela palermina, Mustela praenivalis, Mustela putorius, Mustela rexroadensis, Mustela richardsonii, Mustela sibirica, Mustela spelaea, Mustela strigidorsa

Type specimen: PIUW-PIK without a number, a skull. Its type locality is Pikermi (old collection), which is in a Miocene fluvial horizon in Greece.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Greece (2 collections), Moldova (2)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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