Plesiogulo
Temporal range: Miocene-Pliocene
Plesiogulo brachygnathus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Genus: †Plesiogulo
Zdansky, 1924
Species

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Plesiogulo is a genus of prehistoric carnivore that lived from Miocene to Pliocene of Africa, Eurasia and North America. An ancestral relationship to the wolverine (Gulo gulo) was once suggested, but it is no longer considered likely.[1] However, some authorities still consider it a member of the Guloninae.[2]

Species

The following species have been currently described for this genus:[2]

  • †P. brachygnathus (Schlosser, 1903)
  • †P. botori Haile-Selassie, Hlusko & Howell, 2004
  • †P. crassa Teilhard de Chardin, 1945
  • †P. marshalli (Martin, 1928)
  • †P. lindsayi Harrison, 1981
  • †P. monspessulanus Viret, 1939
  • †P. praecocidens Kurtén, 1970

References

  1. ↑ Samuels, Joshua X.; Bredehoeft, Keila E.; Wallace, Steven C. (2018). "A new species of Gulo from the Early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site (Eastern United States); rethinking the evolution of wolverines". PeerJ. 6: e4648. doi:10.7717/peerj.4648. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5910791. PMID 29682423.
  2. 1 2 Valenciano, Alberto; Govender, Romala (2020-06-01). "New insights into the giant mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg fossil site (West Coast Fossil Park, South Africa, early Pliocene)". PeerJ. 8: e9221. doi:10.7717/peerj.9221. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 7271888. PMID 32547866.


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