Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Alternative combination: Taxidea nevadensis

Full reference: E. M. Butterworth. 1916. A new mustelid from the Thousand Creek Pliocene of Nevada. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(2):21-24

Belongs to Pliotaxidea according to J. A. Harrison 1983

Sister taxon: Pliotaxidea garberi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Thousand Creek, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in Nevada

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Average measurements (in mm): m1 9.71 x 4.96