| Musteloidea | |
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| Left-right:spotted skunk,red panda,wolverine andraccoon; representing the familiesMephitidae,Ailuridae,Mustelidae andProcyonidae. | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Clade: | Canoidea |
| Infraorder: | Arctoidea |
| Parvorder: | Mustelida |
| Superfamily: | Musteloidea Fischer, 1817 |
| Families | |
Musteloidea is asuperfamily ofcarnivoranmammals united by shared characteristics of the skull and teeth. Musteloids are thesister group ofpinnipeds, the group which includes seals and allies.[1]
Musteloidea comprises the following families:
InNorth America,ursids (bears) and musteloids first appeared in theChadronian[citation needed] of the lateEocene, and in early-OligoceneEurope, immediately following theGrande Coupure extinction event.
The followingcladogram is based onmolecular phylogeny of six genes in Flynn (2005),[2] with the musteloids updated following the multigene analysis of Law et al. (2018).[3]
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