Life Reconstruction of Plesiogulo marshalli

''Plesiogulo'' is a genus of prehistoric

carnivore A carnivore , or meat-eater (Latin, ''caro'', genitive ''carnis'', meaning meat or "flesh" and ''vorare'' meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they ar ...

that lived from

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...

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and

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. An ancestral relationship to the

wolverine The wolverine ( , ; ''Gulo gulo''), also called the carcajou or quickhatch (from East Cree, ''kwiihkwahaacheew''), is the largest land-dwelling species, member of the family Mustelidae. It is a muscular carnivore and a solitary animal. The w ...

(''Gulo gulo'') was once suggested, but it is no longer considered likely. However, some authorities still consider it a member of the

Guloninae Guloninae is a subfamily of the mammal family Mustelidae distributed across Eurasia and the Americas. It includes martens, fishers, tayras, and the wolverine. These genera were formerly included within a paraphyletic definition of the mustelid ...

Species

The following species have been currently described for this genus: * †'' P. brachygnathus'' (Schlosser, 1903) * †'' P. botori'' Haile-Selassie, Hlusko & Howell, 2004 * †'' P. crassa'' Teilhard de Chardin, 1945 * †'' P. marshalli'' (Martin, 1928) * † ''P.'' ''lindsayi'' Harrison, 1981 * †'' P. monspessulanus'' Viret, 1939 * †'' P. praecocidens'' Kurtén, 1970

References

External links

What Exactly Is A Marten?The Palaeobiology Database
Guloninae Pliocene carnivorans Prehistoric mustelids Prehistoric carnivoran genera {{Paleo-carnivora-stub