Oaxacagale ruizi Ferrusquía-Villafranca and Wang 2021 (mustelid carnivore)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: I. Ferrusquía-Villafranca and X. Wang. 2021. The first Paleogene mustelid (mammalia, Carnivora) from southern North America and its paleontologic significance. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 103236

Belongs to Oaxacagale according to I. Ferrusquía-Villafranca and X. Wang 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IGM 7998, a skull (nearly complete cranium). Its type locality is 1.7 km ESE of Santiago Yolomécatl, which is in a Bartonian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone in the Yolomécatl Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at 1.7 km ESE of Santiago Yolomécatl

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