Tribe Lutrini Gray 1865 (otter)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Parent taxon: Lutrinae according to M. Pickford 2007

See also Baskin 1998, Willemsen 1983 and Willemsen 1992

Sister taxa: Aonychini, Aonyx, Aonyxini, Enhydra, Enhydrini, Enhydriodon, Enhydriodontini, Enhydritherium, Hydrictis, Lontra, Lutra, Lutraeximia, Lutrictis, Lutrogale, Megencephalon, Paludolutra, Paralutra, Pteronura, Siamogale, Sivaonyx, Teruelictis, Tyrrhenolutra, Vishnuonyx

Subtaxa: Algarolutra Cyrnolutra Limnonyx Megalenhydris Mionictis Sardolutra Satherium

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Italy (4), United States (2: Florida)

• Blancan of United States (42: Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Washington)

• Pliocene of United States (1: Idaho)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Nebraska)

• Miocene of China (1), France (4), Italy (1), Moldova (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Turkey (1), United States (17: California, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas)

Total: 79 collections including 81 occurrences

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