Circamustela

Circamustela
Temporal range: Mid to Late Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Subfamily: Guloninae
Genus: Circamustela
Petter, 1967
Species
  • C. bhapralensis [1]
  • C. dechaseauxi (type)
  • C. hartmanni
  • C. peignei
  • C.? laevidens
Synonyms

Circamustela an extinct genus of gulonine mustelids, known from the Miocene of Europe [2] and Asia.[3] There are four definitively known species, C. dechaseauxi[2] and C. peignei,[4] both known from Spain, C. bhapralensis from India[3], and C. hartmanni,[5] known from Germany, as well as a fourth, tentatively assigned species, C. laevidens,[6] also from Germany.

References

  1. ^ Anek Ram Sankhyan, Sayyed Ghyour Abbas, Steven E. Jasinski, Muhammad Akbar Khan and Khalid Mahmood. 2025. Rare Carnivorous Mammals from A diverse Fossil Assemblage from the Middle Siwaliks of Haritalyangar area, Himachal Pradesh, North India. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 32; 14. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09749-4 [22 March 2025]
  2. ^ a b Petter, G (1967). "Mustélidés nouveaux du Vallésien de Catalogne". Annales de Paléontologie. 53: 93–113.
  3. ^ a b Sankhyan, Anek Ram; Abbas, Sayyed Ghyour; Jasinski, Steven E.; Khan, Muhammad Akbar; Mahmood, Khalid (June 2025). "Rare carnivorous mammals from a diverse fossil assemblage from the Middle Siwaliks of Haritalyangar area, Himachal Pradesh, North India". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 32 (2). doi:10.1007/s10914-025-09749-4. ISSN 1064-7554.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.