Oaxacagale Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Mustelidae |
Genus: | †Oaxacagale Ferrusquía-Villafranca & Wang, 2021 |
Species | |
†O. ruizi |
Oaxacagale is an extinct weasel genus of Mustelidae that lived in the Eocene in North America. It is thought to have resembled the extant Mustela frenata.[1]
The skull of Oaxacagale was found in Mexico in Yolomécatl Formation and is estimated to be 40.3 million years old.[1] It was found in the same fossil-bearing unit as Douglassciurus oaxacaensi and Protozetamys mixtecus.[2]
Species | Time span | Author | Discovered |
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Oaxacagale ruizi | Late Eocene | Ferrusquía-Villafranca & Wang | 2021 |