Taxidea taxus marylandica Gidley and Gazin 1933

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Alternative combination: Taxidea marylandica

Full reference: J. W. Gidley and C. L. Gazin. 1933. New Mammalia in the Pleistocene fauna from Cumberland Cave. Journal of Mammology 14(4):343-357

Belongs to Taxidea taxus according to C. A. Long 1964

See also Gidley and Gazin 1933, Gidley and Gazin 1938, Hall 1936 and Kurten and Anderson 1980

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 7990, a partial skeleton (skull, jaws, eleven vertebrate, and proximal half of the right humerus). Its type locality is Cumberland Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Maryland.

Distribution: found only at Cumberland Cave

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