Circamustela

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

Circamustela an extinct genus of gulonine mustelids, known from the Miocene of Europe and Asia. There are four definitively known species, C. dechaseauxi and C. peignei, both known from Spain, C. bhapralensis from India, and C. hartmanni, known from Germany, as well as a fourth, tentatively assigned species, C. laevidens, also from Germany.

References

↑ Anek Ram Sankhyan, Sayyed Ghyour Abbas, Steven E. Jasinski, Muhammad Akbar Khan and Khalid Mahmood. 2025. Rare Carnivorous Mammals from A diverse Fossil Assemblage from the Middle Siwaliks of Haritalyangar area, Himachal Pradesh, North India. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 32; 14. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09749-4 [22 March 2025]
1 2 Petter, G (1967). "Mustélidés nouveaux du Vallésien de Catalogne". Annales de Paléontologie. 53: 93–113.
1 2 Sankhyan, Anek Ram; Abbas, Sayyed Ghyour; Jasinski, Steven E.; Khan, Muhammad Akbar; Mahmood, Khalid (June 2025). "Rare carnivorous mammals from a diverse fossil assemblage from the Middle Siwaliks of Haritalyangar area, Himachal Pradesh, North India". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 32 (2). doi:10.1007/s10914-025-09749-4. ISSN 1064-7554.
↑ 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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[1] Anek Ram Sankhyan, Sayyed Ghyour Abbas, Steven E. Jasinski, Muhammad Akbar Khan and Khalid Mahmood. 2025. Rare Carnivorous Mammals from A diverse Fossil Assemblage from the Middle Siwaliks of Haritalyangar area, Himachal Pradesh, North India. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 32; 14. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09749-4 [22 March 2025]

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

[:1-3] 1 2 Sankhyan, Anek Ram; Abbas, Sayyed Ghyour; Jasinski, Steven E.; Khan, Muhammad Akbar; Mahmood, Khalid (June 2025). "Rare carnivorous mammals from a diverse fossil assemblage from the Middle Siwaliks of Haritalyangar area, Himachal Pradesh, North India". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 32 (2). doi:10.1007/s10914-025-09749-4. ISSN 1064-7554.

[4] 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.

[5] 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.

[6] 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.