Promeles Zittel, 1890

Geraads, Denis & Spassov, Nikolaï, 2016, Musteloid carnivores from the upper Miocene of South- Western Bulgaria, and the phylogeny of the Mephitidae, Geodiversitas 38 (4), pp. 543-558 : 553

Genus Promeles Zittel, 1890

TYPE SPECIES. — Mustela palaeattica Weithofer, 1888 by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS. — Skull profile regularly curved, frontals rather broad, sagittal crest usually present but weak, choanae located very posteriorly. I3 much larger than I1-I2, canine conical, upper premolars much increasing in size from P1 to P4, the latter with a parastyle and a strong protocone. M1 with a robust buccal cingulum along the paracone, a metacone close to the paracone, and a long, crescent-shape protocone that ends distally in a prominent metaconule. Trigonid of m1 long, paraconid long and directed forwards, talonid about as long as the trigonid, central basin entirely surrounded by a ridge consisting of numerous cuspids and cusplets.