Circamustela

Circamustela; Temporal range: Mid to Late Miocene
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Mustelidae
Subfamily:	Guloninae
Genus:	† Circamustela ; Petter, 1967
Species
	C. dechaseauxi (type); C. hartmanni; C. peignei; C.? laevidens;
Synonyms
	Martes laevidens?;

Last updated June 21, 2025

Circamustela an extinct genus of gulonine mustelids, known from the Miocene of Europe ^[1]. There are three definitively known species, C. dechaseauxi^[1] and C. peignei^[2], both known from Spain, and C. hartmanni^[3], known from Germany, as well as a fourth, tentatively assigned species, C. laevidens^[4], also from Germany.

References

1 2 Petter, G (1967). "Mustélidés nouveaux du Vallésien de Catalogne". Annales de Paléontologie. 53: 93–113.
↑ Valenciano, Alberto; Pérez-Ramos, Alejandro; Abella, Juan; Morales, Jorge (2020-04-02). "A new hypercarnivorous mustelid (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Batallones, late Miocene (MN10), Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain". Geodiversitas. 42 (8): 103. Bibcode:2020Geodv..42..103V. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a8. ISSN 1280-9659.
↑ Kargopoulos, Nikolaos; Valenciano, Alberto; Abella, Juan; Kampouridis, Panagiotis; Lechner, Thomas; Böhme, Madelaine (2022-07-13). "The exceptionally high diversity of small carnivorans from the Late Miocene hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany)". PLOS ONE. 17 (7): e0268968. Bibcode:2022PLoSO..1768968K. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268968 . ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 9278789 . PMID 35830447.
↑ Dehm, Richard (1950). "Die Raubtiere aus dem Mittel-Miocän (Burdigalium) von Wintershof-West bei Eichstätt in Bayern" (PDF). Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (58): 1–141 – via Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Petter, G (1967). "Mustélidés nouveaux du Vallésien de Catalogne". Annales de Paléontologie. 53: 93–113.

[2] Valenciano, Alberto; Pérez-Ramos, Alejandro; Abella, Juan; Morales, Jorge (2020-04-02). "A new hypercarnivorous mustelid (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Batallones, late Miocene (MN10), Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain". Geodiversitas. 42 (8): 103. Bibcode:2020Geodv..42..103V. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a8. ISSN 1280-9659.

[3] Kargopoulos, Nikolaos; Valenciano, Alberto; Abella, Juan; Kampouridis, Panagiotis; Lechner, Thomas; Böhme, Madelaine (2022-07-13). "The exceptionally high diversity of small carnivorans from the Late Miocene hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany)". PLOS ONE. 17 (7): e0268968. Bibcode:2022PLoSO..1768968K. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268968 . ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 9278789 . PMID 35830447.

[4] Dehm, Richard (1950). "Die Raubtiere aus dem Mittel-Miocän (Burdigalium) von Wintershof-West bei Eichstätt in Bayern" (PDF). Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (58): 1–141 – via Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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