Ferinestrix, BJORK, 1970

Wolsan, Mieczyslaw & Sotnikova, Marina, 2013, Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of the Pliocene stem meline badger Ferinestrix (Carnivora: Mustelidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167 (1), pp. 208-226 : 212-213

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GENUS FERINESTRIX BJORK, 1970

Ferinestrix – Bjork, 1970: 19.

Ferinestris – Kalmykov & Maschenko, 2007: 182 (incorrect subsequent spelling); Maschenko, Takai & Kalmykov, 2007: 204 (incorrect subsequent spelling).

Firenestrix – Sotnikova, 2008a: 298 (incorrect subsequent spelling).

Etymology: Derived from the Latin ferina meaning ‘flesh of wild animals’ and estrix meaning ‘eater’; feminine in gender.

Revised diagnosis: Stem melines differing from all other taxa of the total clade of Melinae in the following features: body size larger; facial and palatal skull region rostrocaudally shorter relative to its transverse breadth; P2, P3, M1, and p2–p4 mesiodistally shorter relative to their vestibulolingual widths; m1 talonid smaller relative to the trigonid.

Type species: Ferinestrix vorax Bjork, 1970 . Referred species: Ferinestrix rapax sp. nov.

Phylogenetic relationships: Phylogenetic analysis recovered Ferinestrix as closely related to Arctomeles , Arctonyx , and Meles to the exclusion of Melodon ( Fig. 2).

References

Bjork PR. 1970. The Carnivora of the Hagerman local fauna (late Pliocene) of southwestern Idaho. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 60 (7): 1 - 54. map 1.

Kalmykov NP, Maschenko EN. 2007. Taksonomicheskii ˘ sostav fauny krupnykh mlekopitayushchikh iz Udungi (Zapadnoe Zabai ˘ kal'e): novye dannye. In: Teriofauna Rossii i sopredel'nykh territorii ˘ (VIII s ezd Teriologicheskogo obshchestva), materialy mezhdunarodnogo soveshchaniya, 31 yanvarya - 2 fevralya 2007 g., g. Moskva. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press, 182.

Maschenko EN, Takai M, Kalmykov NP. 2007. Ekologiya iskopaemykh Cercopithecoidea (Primates, Mammalia) gornykh territorii ˘ Azii. In: Rozhnov VV, Tembotova FA, eds. Mlekopitayushchie gornykh territorii ˘. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi ˘ konferentsii. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press, 203 - 208.

Sotnikova MV. 2008 a. Korrelyatsiya geograficheski udalennykh pliotsenovykh soobshchestv mlekopitayushchikh na osnove analiza assotsiatsii ˘ Carnivora iz mestonakhozhdenii ˘ Udunga v Zabai ˘ kal'e i Odesskie katakomby v Ukraine. In: Gozhik PF, ed. Biostratygrafichni osnovy pobudovy stratygrafichnykh skhem fanerozoyu Ukrainy: zbirnyk naukovykh prats' Instytutu geologichnykh nauk NAN Ukrainy. Kyiv: Institute of Geological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 297 - 302.