Skeleton of Extinct North American Sea Mink ( Mustela macrodon )
Mustela macrodon (extinct sea mink) is known only from prehistoric and historic Native American shell middens dating less than 5100 years old along coastal islands of the Gulf of Maine, northeastern North America. The species is distinct from all known extant subspecies of M. vison (American mink) b...
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ftwrightuniv:oai:corescholar.libraries.wright.edu:socanth-1006 2024-06-23T07:48:06+00:00 Skeleton of Extinct North American Sea Mink ( Mustela macrodon ) Mead, Jim I. Spiess, Arthur E. Sobolik, Kristin D. 2000-03-01T08:00:00Z https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/socanth/6 https://doi.org/10.1006/qres.1999.2109 unknown CORE Scholar https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/socanth/6 doi:10.1006/qres.1999.2109 Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Publications extinct sea mink Mustela macrodon northeastern North America Maine Anthropology Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology text 2000 ftwrightuniv https://doi.org/10.1006/qres.1999.2109 2024-05-30T06:09:34Z Mustela macrodon (extinct sea mink) is known only from prehistoric and historic Native American shell middens dating less than 5100 years old along coastal islands of the Gulf of Maine, northeastern North America. The species is distinct from all known extant subspecies of M. vison (American mink) but still belongs to the North American subgenus Vison. Metric comparisons between M. macrodon and five subspecies of M. vison, using skull, mandible, humerus, radius, femur, and tibia skeletal elements, show that M. macrodon is larger in overall size and robustness and is proportionately larger in the dental region. Many habitat-related parallels exist between coastal island mink of the Gulf of Maine and those of the Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, where the overall largest living subspecies of mink is found (M. v. nesolestes). Text Archipelago Alaska Wright State University: CORE Scholar (Campus Online Repository) Quaternary Research 53 2 247 262 |
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Mustela macrodon (extinct sea mink) is known only from prehistoric and historic Native American shell middens dating less than 5100 years old along coastal islands of the Gulf of Maine, northeastern North America. The species is distinct from all known extant subspecies of M. vison (American mink) but still belongs to the North American subgenus Vison. Metric comparisons between M. macrodon and five subspecies of M. vison, using skull, mandible, humerus, radius, femur, and tibia skeletal elements, show that M. macrodon is larger in overall size and robustness and is proportionately larger in the dental region. Many habitat-related parallels exist between coastal island mink of the Gulf of Maine and those of the Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, where the overall largest living subspecies of mink is found (M. v. nesolestes). |
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