Promartes

Promartes is a genus of mustelids, now extinct, which existed during the Miocene period.

Promartes Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Caniformia
Family:	Mustelidae
Subfamily:	†Oligobuninae
Genus:	†Promartes Riggs, 1942
Species
P. darbyi P. gemmarosae P. lepidus (Matthew, 1907) P. olcotti Riggs, 1942 (type) P. vantasselensis

Taxonomy

The genus was first described in 1942, by E. S. Riggs, who identified the sister genus Zodiolestes at the same time, and assigned to the family Mustelidae. It belongs to the subfamily Oligobuninae. Five species have been identified in the genus: Promartes darbyi, P. gemmarosae, P. lepidus, P. olcotti, andP. vantasselensis,^[1] three of which were originally identified as members of Oligobunis.^[2]