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Taxidea taxus (American badger)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Taxonomy
Ursus taxus was named by Schreber (1778). It is extant. It is the type species of Taxidea.

It was recombined as Taxidea taxus by Rhoads (1894), Hay (1902), Schultz and Howard (1935), Hall (1936), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Mead and Mead (1989) and Marmi et al. (2004).

Subspecies
T. marylandica

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1778Ursus taxus Schreber
1865Taxidea americana Gray
1877Taxidea sulcata Cope p. 227
1894Taxidea taxus Rhoads
1902Taxidea sulcata Hay p. 765
1902Taxidea taxus Hay p. 765
1921Taxidea robusta Hay
1935Taxidea taxus Schultz and Howard p. 283
1936Taxidea taxus Hall
1980Taxidea taxus Kurten and Anderson p. 157
1989Taxidea taxus Mead and Mead p. 151
2004Taxidea taxus Marmi et al. p. 489 figs. Fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
—Mustelida
familyMustelidaeFischer 1817
subfamilyTaxidiinae(Pocock 1920)
genusTaxideaWaterhouse 1839
speciestaxus(Schreber 1778)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Taxidea taxus Schreber 1778 [American badger]
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Invalid names: Taxidea americana Gray 1865 [synonym], Taxidea robusta Hay 1921 [synonym], Taxidea sulcata Cope 1877 [synonym]
†Taxidea taxus marylandica Gidley and Gazin 1933
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: semifossorialg
Diet: carnivoreg
Diet 2: omnivoreg
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2009-01-04 14:20:12
Modified: 2012-05-14 22:03:08
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Van Valkenburgh 1988

Age range: base of the Blancan to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 4.90000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (42 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588USA (Oregon) Taxidea taxus (226540)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Nebraska) Taxidea taxus (19963)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Kansas) Taxidea taxus (19929 19932 19936)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Texas) Taxidea sp. (20033) Taxidea taxus (20060)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (Tennessee) Taxidea taxus (93373)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (West Virginia) Taxidea taxus (125941)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Maryland) Taxidea marylandica, Taxidea taxus (20302)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3Mexico (Aguascalientes) Taxidea taxus (20283)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Arizona) Taxidea robusta (19617)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Colorado) Taxidea taxus (20150 20300 20304 20329 20349 20477 20559)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (New Mexico) Taxidea taxus (20505)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Nebraska) Taxidea taxus (20143)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Iowa) Taxidea taxus (20556)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Washington) Taxidea taxus (20307)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Pennsylvania) Taxidea taxus (20479)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Texas) Taxidea taxus (20164 20530)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (California) Taxidea taxus (20126 20272 20327)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Utah) Taxidea taxus (20641)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Arizona) Taxidea taxus (93244)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Colorado) Taxidea taxus (74953)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (New Mexico) Taxidea taxus (93141 93281)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (West Virginia) Taxidea taxus (93332)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Idaho) Taxidea taxus (20569)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Canada (Saskatchewan) Taxidea taxus (20590)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Wyoming) Taxidea taxus (93277)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Mexico (Nuevo Leon) Taxidea taxus (71345)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (New Mexico) Taxidea taxus (76059 76060)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0USA (Nevada) Taxidea taxus (93291)