Superfamily Musteloidea Fischer de Waldheim 1817 (carnivoran)
Parent taxon: Arctoidea according to J. A. Baskin 1998
See also Berta and Morgan 1985, Labs Hochstein 2007, Robles et al. 2010, Tedford 1976, Wang et al. 2005 and Wang and Qiu 2004
Sister taxa: Allocyon, Amphicticeps, Arctomorpha, Mustelida, Nothocyon, Panpinnipedia, Semantor, Ursida
Subtaxa: Proputorius Semantoridae
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
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