Musteloid carnivores from the upper Miocene of South- Western Bulgaria, and the phylogeny of the Mephitidae Author Geraads, Denis Author Spassov, Nikolaï text Geodiversitas 2016 2016-12-30 38 4 543 558 http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2016n4a5 journal article 10.5252/g2016n4a5 1638-9395 4535593 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:528EED12-2BF4-4BA6-A3DC-7706ED8C5072 Genus Promeles Zittel, 1890 TYPE SPECIES. — Mustela palaeattica Weithofer, 1888 by original designation. DIAGNOSIS. — Skull profile regularly curved, frontals rather broad, sagittal crest usually present but weak, choanae located very posteriorly. I3 much larger than I1-I2, canine conical, upper premolars much increasing in size from P1 to P4, the latter with a parastyle and a strong protocone. M1 with a robust buccal cingulum along the paracone, a metacone close to the paracone, and a long, crescent-shape protocone that ends distally in a prominent metaconule. Trigonid of m1 long, paraconid long and directed forwards, talonid about as long as the trigonid, central basin entirely surrounded by a ridge consisting of numerous cuspids and cusplets.