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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Extinct species of mustelid}}<br />
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| image = Mellivora sivalensis.jpg<br />
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| fossil_range = [[Pleistocene]], {{fossilrange|2.58|0.7}}{{Period fossil range|Quaternary|2.58|0.7}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Patnaik |first1=R. |chapter=Indian Neogene Siwalik Mammalian Biostratigraphy: An Overview |title=Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology |date=2013 |pages=439 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231520829 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270894871_Indian_Neogene_Siwalik_Mammalian_Biostratigraphy_An_Overview}}</ref><br />
| extinct = yes<br />
| genus = Mellivora <br />
| species = sivalensis<br />
| authority= Falconer & Cautley, 1868<ref>{{cite web |title=Mellivora sivalensis |url=https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1203823/ |website=Biolib}}</ref><br />
| synonyms = ''[[Ursitaxus]] sivalensis''<br />
}}<br />
'''''Mellivora sivalensis''''' is an extinct species of mustelid that lived in the [[Pliocene]] and is known from the [[Siwaliks]] of [[India]] and [[Pakistan]].<br />
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It is a poorly known species, originally classified as ''Ursitaxus sivalensis''. It was similar to the modern [[Indian ratel]], but was larger and had proportionately larger [[premolar]]s.<ref>{{cite book |title=Records of the Geological Survey of India: Volume 11 |date=1878 |publisher=Government of India Press |page=102}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Annals & Magazine of Natural History |date=1884 |publisher=Taylor & Francis, Limited |page=285}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Pliocene carnivorans]]<br />
[[Category:Prehistoric mustelids]]<br />
[[Category:Pliocene mammals of Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1868]]<br />
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