Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Alternative combination: Taxidea nevadensis
Full reference: E. M. Butterworth. 1916. A new mustelid from the Thousand Creek Pliocene of Nevada. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(2):21-24
Belongs to Pliotaxidea according to J. A. Harrison 1983
See also Butterworth 1916, Cook and Macdonald 1962, Hall 1944 and Wagner 1976
Sister taxon: Pliotaxidea garberi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Thousand Creek Formation, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Thousand Creek Formation of Nevada
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (13: Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington collections)
• Miocene of United States (1: Oregon)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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