Eomellivora, Zdansky, 1924

Valenciano, A, Abella, J, Göhlich, UB, Álvarez-Sierra, MA & Morales, J, 2017, Re-evaluation of the very large Eomellivora fricki (Pia, 1939) (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Mellivorinae) from the Late Miocene of Austria, Palaeontologia Electronica 20 (1), pp. 1-22 : 5

Genus EOMELLIVORA Zdansky, 1924

Type species. Eomellivora wimani Zdansky, 1924 by original designation.

Included species. Eomellivora wimani Zdansky, 1924 ; Eomellivora fricki ( Pia, 1939) ; Eomellivora hungarica Kretzoi, 1942 ; Eomellivora ursogulo ( Orlov, 1948) ; Eomellivora piveteaui Ozansoy, 1965 ; Eomellivora ?tugenensis Morales and Pickford, 2005.

Diagnosis. Modified after Wolsan and Semenov (1996) and Werdelin and Peigné (2010). Mellivorine mustelid of large size; P1 present; P3 with one or two distal accessory cusps; P3 with the distal area thickened; P4 with a subconical protocone, and with paracone-protocone and paracone-parastyle crests; P4 protocone located in line with the parastyle; P4 parastyle poorly-developed but thickened; buccal wall of P4 with a concavity in the base of the crown between the paracone and the metastyle, exhibiting a variable degree of development; stylar area of M1 enlarged; M1 with a non-reduced metacone in the earlier species and a reduced one in the Turolian-Ventian; M1 with an arched ridge-shaped or conical protocone continuing into the mesial protocone crest, and a talon relatively equally expanded mesially and distally; premolar teeth crowned; p1 present; p2 turned buccolingually from the tooth row; p3 with a distal accessory cuspid and with the distal area thickened; p4 enlarged with a distal accessory cuspid and with a backward inclination of the main cuspid towards the m1; m1 enlarged with the m1 metaconid residual in some of the earliest species and absent in the others, in which it is replaced by a distinct crest; m1 talonid with single but strong, high and centrally positioned hypoconid; m2 elongated mesiodistally with a low crown surrounded by a cingulum and a central protoconid.