Circamustela
Appearance
Circamustela Temporal range: Mid to Late Miocene
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Mustelidae |
Subfamily: | Guloninae |
Genus: | †Circamustela Petter, 1967 |
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Circamustela an extinct genus of gulonine mustelids, known from the Miocene of Europe[1]. There are three definitively known species, C. dechaseauxi[1] and C. peignei[2], both known from Spain, and C. hartmanni[3], known from Germany, as well as a fourth, tentatively assigned species, C. laevidens[4], also from Germany.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Petter, G (1967). "Mustélidés nouveaux du Vallésien de Catalogne". Annales de Paléontologie. 53: 93–113.
- ^ Valenciano, Alberto; Pérez-Ramos, Alejandro; Abella, Juan; Morales, Jorge (2020-04-02). "A new hypercarnivorous mustelid (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Batallones, late Miocene (MN10), Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain". Geodiversitas. 42 (8): 103. Bibcode:2020Geodv..42..103V. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a8. ISSN 1280-9659.
- ^ Kargopoulos, Nikolaos; Valenciano, Alberto; Abella, Juan; Kampouridis, Panagiotis; Lechner, Thomas; Böhme, Madelaine (2022-07-13). "The exceptionally high diversity of small carnivorans from the Late Miocene hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany)". PLOS ONE. 17 (7): e0268968. Bibcode:2022PLoSO..1768968K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0268968. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 9278789. PMID 35830447.
- ^ Dehm, Richard (1950). "Die Raubtiere aus dem Mittel-Miocän (Burdigalium) von Wintershof-West bei Eichstätt in Bayern" (PDF). Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (58): 1–141 – via Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.