Kinometaxia Wang et al. 2004 (mustelid carnivore)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: X.-M. Wang, Z.-X. Qiu, and B.-Y. Wang. 2004. A new leptarctine (Carnivora: Mustelidae) from the early Miocene of the northern Tibetan Plateau: implications for the phylogeny and zoogeography of basal mustelids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142:405-421

Parent taxon: Leptarctinae according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2004

See also Wang et al. 2005

Sister taxa: Leptarctini, Leptarctus, Schultzogale, Trocharion

Subtaxa: Kinometaxia guangpui

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at IVPP locality DH9910 (Miocene of China)

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