Wolverine ancestors and descendants to scale

Another short one today,
as the graphics, once again, tell the tale recently recovered by the recently updated LRT.

Figure 1. The wolverine, Gulo gulo, compared to scale with its ancestors and descendants in the LRT. The larger taxa are traditional bears.

The extant wolverine,
Gulo gulo (Fig 1), is a late-surviving taxon basal to seals and sea lions, closely related to Arctodus, the short-face cave bear, and derived from Meles, the badger (Fig 1) in the large reptile tree (LRT, 2317 taxa). Some traditional bears. like Tremarctos and Melursus (Fig 1_ are essentially large wolverines. Others are not. Pinnipeds, like phylogenetically miniaturized Palaeogale and larger Phoca (Fig 1) are aquatic wolverines in the LRT.

Gulo gulo
(Linneaus 1758; up to 110 cm in length) is the extant wolverine, a ferocious predator resembling a small bear. Here it nests with Arctodus, the short-face bear at the base of the higher Carnivora.

References
Linnaeus C 1758. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata.

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