Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Alternative combination: Brachypsaloides modicus
Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1918. Contributions to the Snake Creek Fauna with notes upon the Pleistocene of western Nebraska, American Museum Expedition of 1916. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 38(7):183-229
Belongs to Brachypsalis according to J. A. Baskin 1998
See also Matthew 1918 and Webb 1969
Sister taxa: Brachypsalis hyaenoides, Brachypsalis matutinus, Brachypsalis obliquidens, Brachypsalis pachycephalus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Snake Creek Fauna, which is in a Barstovian/Clarendonian channel sandstone in Nebraska
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (5: California, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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