Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Alternative combination: Brachypsalis angustidens

Full reference: E. R. Hall. 1930. A Bassarisk and a New Mustelid from the Later Tertiary of California. Journal of Mammalogy 11(1):23-26

Belongs to Mionictis according to J. A. Baskin 1998

See also Hall 1930

Sister taxa: Mionictis artenensis, Mionictis dubia, Mionictis elegans, Mionictis incertus, Mionictis letifer, Mionictis pristinus

Type specimen: CIT 44, a mandible (fragment of left mandibular ramus). Its type locality is Kern River, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Kern River Formation of California.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Kern River

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.