MUSTELIDAE FISCHER VON WALDHEIM, 1817

Maguire, Kaitlin Clare & Schmitz, Joshua X. Samuels and Mark D., 2018, The fauna and chronostratigraphy of the middle Miocene Mascall type area, John Day Basin, Oregon, USA, PaleoBios 35, pp. 1-51 : 15-16

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MUSTELIDAE FISCHER VON WALDHEIM, 1817 View in CoL LEPTARCTUS LEIDY, 1857

Leptarctus oregonensis STOCK, 1930

Holotype —From CIT 113: Left partial maxilla with P4 and M1, right partial maxilla with P4, right M1, incisor, nasals, zygomatic arches, occipital crest, CIT 206.

is not narrow. It is too small to be Sthenictis Peterson, 1910 , another Barstovian mustelid. UCMP 39958 is unlike Watay tabutsigwii McLaughlin, Hopkins and Schmitz, 2016 from Hawk Rim, as that taxon has a trenchant talonid like hypercarnivorous ischyrictines. The talonid of UCMP 39958 is basined as in Martes Frisch, 1775 . It was originally identified as Martes ( Downs 1951) ; however, Anderson (1994) and Hughes (2012) have questioned whether many “ Martes ” taxa prior to the late Miocene were related to the extant genus. Sato et al. (2003) suggested the oldest true Martes is M. wenzensis Frisch, 1775 from the Pliocene of Poland ( Wolsan 1989). Anderson (1994) suggested the extant Martes americana Turton, 1806 is a late Pleistocene immigrant to North America. The locality for UCMP 39958 is unknown ( V 67153 is assigned to specimens with no locality information for the Mascall Formation). The specimen tag in the UCMP says Mascall or Rattlesnake Formation. Downs (1951) mentions UCMP 39958 and states “it cannot be considered a valid Mascall allocation” (pg. 102). Given the material, more precise taxonomic identification is not possible and it remains unknown if this specimen belongs to the Mascall or Rattlesnake Formation. The oldest known and well-dated member of the subfamily including Martes , the Guloninae , is Pekania occulta Samuels and Cavin, 2013 from the Rattlesnake Formation.

References

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Downs, T. 1951. A review of the Mascall Miocene fauna and related assemblages. Ph. D. diss, Department of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley.

Fischer von Waldheim, G. 1817. Adversaria zoologica. Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 5: 357 - 446.

Frisch, J. L. 1775. Das Natur-system der vierfuszigen Thiere, in Tabellen, darinnen alle Ordnungen, Geschlechte un Arten, nicht nur mit bestimmenden Benennungen, sondern beygeseszten unterscheidenden Kennzeichen angezeigt werden, zum Nutzen der erwachsenen Schuljugend, Glogan, Gunther. 35 pp.

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Leidy, J. 1857. Notices of extinct Vertebrata discovered by F. V. Hayden, during the expedition to the Sioux Country under the command of Lieut. G. K. Warren. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 8: 311 - 312.

McLaughlin, W. N. F., S. S. B. Hopkins and M. D. Schmitz. 2016. A new late Hemingfordian vertebrate fauna from Hawk Rim, Oregon, with implications for biostratigraphy and geochronology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36 (5): e 1201095.

Peterson, O. A. 1910. Description of new carnivores from the Miocene of western Nebraska. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 4 (5): 205 - 278.

Samuels, J. X. and J. Cavin. 2013. The earliest known fisher (Mustelidae), a new species from the Rattlesnake Formation of Oregon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (2): 448 - 454.

Sato, J. J., T. Hosoda, M. Wolsan, K. Tsuchiya, M. Yamamoto and H. Suzuki. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times among mustelids (Mammalia: Carnivora) based on nucleotide sequences of the nuclear interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein and mitochondrial cytochrome b genes. Zoological Science 20: 243 - 264.

Stock, C. 1930. Carnivora new to the Mascall Miocene fauna of eastern Oregon. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 404: 43 - 48.

Turton, W. 1806. A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals. Lackington and Allen, London, 1.

Wolsan, M. 1989. Dental polymorphism in the Genus Martes (Carnivora: Mustelidae) and its evolutionary significance. Acta The- riologica 34 (40): 545 - 593.