SUBORDER B 



FISSIPEDIA 



VI 



Stenogale Schlosser. M-^ with metaconid, M^ trenchant, single -rooted. 

 Oligocene to Upper Miocene, 



Fseudidis Schlosser. M^ two-rooted. Upper Miocene, Giinzburg. 



Palaeogale von Meyer. M-y lacking metaconid, M^ two-rooted. Oligocene 

 to Upper Miocene. 



Pxitorius Cuv. Weasel. M^ lacking metaconid, M^ single-rooted. Pliocene 

 of Auvergne and Eecent. 



4-1. 



Gido Storr. Glutton. -—• P and if thickened, M^ bicuspid, M^ lacking 



metaconid. Recent forms are circumpolar in distribution. Fossil in Pleisto- 

 cene of Europe and North America. 



Subfamily 2. Martinae. Martens. 



My constantly with inner cusp, and pitted talonid. 3P- small, P^ with very small 

 inner cusp. 



Plesictis Pomel (Fig. 99). Dentition f M. J\P tritubercular. M^ small 

 or lacking, M^ two-rooted. Phosphorites (Oligocene), Lower Miocene of 

 Allier, Ulm, Mayence. Also Upper Miocene, 

 Styria, and La Grive St. Alban. 



Miistela Linn. | M. M^ single-rooted. Upper 

 Miocene of Sansan, La Grive St. Alban and Styria ; 

 Pliocene of Pikermi, Bessarabia and Siwalik ; also 

 Pleistocene of Europe. Tlf. o^?/^m Matthew. Miocene; 

 N. America. M. minor Douglass. Pliocene ; N. 

 America. 



Galictis Bell. Recent in South America. Fossil 

 in Pleistocene of Brazil and Maryland. 



Oligohunis Cope. — - P, 



M. 



_ , ^.^. About the size 



of a badger. Lower Miocene. 0. crassividtis Cope. 

 John Day beds. 0. lepidus Matthew. Dakota. 



Paroligobunis Peterson. 4 P, 2 ilf. Metaconid 

 small, talonid trenchant. P. simplicidens Peterson. 

 Lower Miocene ; Nebraska. P. lacota Matthew and 

 Gidley. Lower Miocene ; Dakota. 



Aelurocyon Peterson. a P, f M. Megalictis 

 Matthew, l^ P,f M are large forms with shortened 

 cranium and muzzle. M^ lacking metaconid, 31^ diminutive. A. brevifacies 

 Peterson. Miocene ; Nebraska. M. feroz Matthew. South Dakota ; Miocene. 



Plesictis lemanensis Pomel. 

 Lower Miocene of St. Gerand-le- 

 Puy, Allier. Lower aspect of the 

 skull, a/4- (After Filliol.) 



Subfamily 3. Lutrinae. Otters. 



Moderate-sized aquatic forms. M with metaconid and trenchant talonid. P'^ 

 with broad inner tubercle. 



Plesiocyon Schlosser. -3 



M. Quercy Phosphorites (Oligocene). 

 Arnphictis Pomel. f M. M.^ with long talonid. Quercy Phosphorites and 

 Miocene. Referable to Cynodontinae, according to Teilhard. 



