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Extinct genus of carnivores

Promartes
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Subfamily: Oligobuninae
Genus: Promartes
Riggs, 1942
Species
  • P. darbyi
  • P. gemmarosae
  • P. lepidus (Matthew, 1907)
  • P. olcotti Riggs, 1942 (type)
  • P. vantasselensis

Promartes is a genus of mustelids, now extinct, which existed during the Miocene period.

Taxonomy

The genus was first described in 1942, by E. S. Riggs, who identified the sister genus Zodiolestes at the same time, and assigned to the family Mustelidae. It belongs to the subfamily Oligobuninae. Five species have been identified in the genus: Promartes darbyi, P. gemmarosae, P. lepidus, P. olcotti, andP. vantasselensis, three of which were originally identified as members of Oligobunis.

Notes

  1. Paleobiology Database (Promartes)
  2. Riggs (1942)

References

Genera of red pandas, raccoons, skunks, mustelids and their extinct allies
Musteloidea
Musteloidea
Ailuridae
Ailurinae
Amphictinae
Simocyoninae
Mephitidae
Procyonidae
Ailurus fulgens

Mephitis mephitis

Bassaricyon alleni
Mustelidae
Mustelidae
Guloninae
Helictidinae
Ictonychinae
Lutrinae
Leptarctinae
Melinae
Mellivorinae
Mustelavinae
Mustelinae
Oligobuninae
Taxidiinae
Gulo gulo

Martes zibellina Megalictis ferox

Chamitataxus avitus
Taxon identifiers
Promartes
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