Mustela eversmanii beringiae
| Mustela eversmanii beringiae | |
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| Skull and jaw of a fossil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Mustelidae |
| Genus: | Mustela |
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| Subspecies: | †M. e. beringiae
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| Trinomial name | |
| †Mustela eversmanii beringiae (Anderson, 1973)
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Mustela eversmanii beringiae is a fossil subspecies of the steppe polecat. It was the largest subspecies of steppe polecat and was larger than the largest extant subspecies, the Baikal steppe polecat.[1] This polecat subspecies inhabited the unglaciated steppes of Beringia, and may have migrated southwards to give rise to the black-footed ferret.[2] It became extinct during the Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions.
References
[edit]- ^ Seal, Ulysses S. (1989-01-01). Conservation Biology and the Black-footed Ferret. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-04123-1.
- ^ Jachowski, David S. (2014-03-28). Wild Again: The Struggle to Save the Black-Footed Ferret. Univ of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-95816-6.
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