Plesiogulo Zdansky 1934 (mustelid carnivore)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Parent taxon: Gulonini according to A. Valenciano et al. 2018

See also Alroy 2002, Baskin 1998, Carroll 1988, Kurten 1968 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010

Sister taxa: Gulo, Iberictis

Subtaxa: Plesiogulo crassa Plesiogulo lindsayi Plesiogulo marshalli Plesiogulo monspessulanus Plesiogulo praecocidens

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories collection), China (1), South Africa (1)

• Hemphillian of Canada (1: Alberta), United States (14: Arizona, California, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), South Africa (1)

• Miocene of China (1), Georgia (1), Greece (2), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (2), Spain (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2)

Total: 31 collections including 32 occurrences

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