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Extinct genus of carnivores

Oligobunis
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Subfamily: Oligobuninae
Genus: Oligobunis
Cope, 1881
Species

O. crassivultus
O. floridanus

Oligobunis is an extinct genus of mustelids, which existed during the Miocene epoch.

The genus was first described by E. D. Cope in 1881. Cope assigned the genus to the family Mustelidae, and J. A. Baskin assigned it to the subfamily Oligobuninae in 1998. Two species have been identified in the genus: O. crassivultus and O. floridanus. Three more - O. gemmarosae, O. lepidus, and O. vantasselensis - were later assigned to the genus Promartes. O. floridanus was a medium-sized badger type mustelid carnivore that filled the niche of small cats during the "cat gap" of the early to middle Miocene in North America. Its fossils have been discovered in Florida, Nebraska, and Oregon.

Notes

  1. Paleobiology Database (Oligobunis)
  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
Oligobunis
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