Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Parent taxon: Mustelidae according to X. Wang et al. 2018
See also Berta and Morgan 1985, Bjork 1970, Boessenecker 2018, Cherin 2017, Cherin et al. 2016, Crusafont-Pairo and Golpe 1962, Hay 1902, Hendey 1974, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Larivière 1998, Malatesta 1978, Marmi et al. 2004, Morales and Pickford 2005, Muizon 1982, Peigne et al. 2008, Pickford 2007, Prevosti and Ferrero 2008, Robles et al. 2010, Salesa et al. 2013, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Tseng et al. 2017, Werdelin and Peigne 2010 and Willemsen 1983
Sister taxa: Acheronictis, Ailurictis, Anatolictis, Arikarictis, Bathygale, Circamustela, Corumictis, Djourabus, Erokomellivora, Franconictis, Galictinae, Guloninae, Hadrictis, Helictidinae, Ictonychinae, Ictonychini, Kenyalutra, Leptarctinae, Luogale, Lutrina, Marcetia, Martinae, Matanomictis, Melidellavus, Melinae, Mellalictis, Mellivorinae, Mephitina, Mesomephitis, Miomustela, Mustelavinae, Mustelina, Mustelinae, Mustellinae, Namibictis, Neovison, Oaxacagale, Oligobuninae, Palaeomeles, Paragale, Parataxidea, Plesictis, Plesiogale, Plesiomeles, Potamotheriinae, Prepoecilogale, Presictis, Promellivora, Pyctis, Sabadellictis, Sinictis, Sivalictis, Taxidiinae, Torolutra, Trochotherium, Viverrina, Watay, Xenictis
Subtaxa: Aonychini Aonyx Aonyxini Enhydra Enhydrini Enhydriodon Enhydriodontini Enhydritherium Hydrictis Lontra Lutra Lutraeximia Lutrictis Lutrini Lutrogale Megencephalon Paludolutra Paralutra Pteronura Siamogale Sivaonyx Teruelictis Tyrrhenolutra Vishnuonyx
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (3 collections), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (4), Canada (3: Ontario, Quebec), China (3), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Ecuador (1), France (5), Georgia (2), Germany (4), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Israel (2), Italy (11), Japan (1), Kenya (2), Malta (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), the Philippines (2), the Russian Federation (2), Rwanda (1), South Africa (15), Sudan (1), Tanzania (2), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (56: Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Vietnam (1), Zambia (1)
• Blancan of United States (44: California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), Kenya (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (1), China (2), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (7), France (2), Hungary (2), India (1), Kenya (5), Morocco (2), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (1), Senegal (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (5), Spain (2), Uganda (3), United States (2: Idaho)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (9: Florida, Nebraska)
• Baodean of China (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), South Africa (3)
• Miocene of Chad (10), China (8), France (6), Germany (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Italy (5), Kenya (5), Moldova (2), Pakistan (7), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (5), Turkey (2), United States (21: California, Florida, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas)
• Oligocene of France (1)
Total: 332 collections including 365 occurrences