Patriofelis YouTube video presentation by Paleo Talks [58]

This is an excellent look
at what paleo writer Riley Black, considers an enigma taxon. It is not an enigma in the LRT.

My comments on the video
“Always good to hear Riley Black, a well-respected and prolific paleojournalist who digs deep into our favorite subject. Testing all competing and several overlooked kinship candidates nests Patriofelis as a cougar-sized honey badger (Mellivora). Kerberos is a smaller more primitive relative. Sarkastodon is much larger. To Black’s best guesses, this clade nests between otters + wolverines and sea lions + hesperocyonids using trait analysis (not genes) here: http://reptileevolution.com/reptile-tree.htm That cladogram also nests enigmatic Uintatherium with Coryphodon and these with Arsinoitherium and hornless more primitive Periptychius, all phenacodontids (no living relatives).

PS Creodonts are all marsupials.

PPS The ‘oddball’ Stylinodon mentioned late in the video nests between bears and seals, arising from primitive clade members Machaeroides and Ectoganus, close to Amphicynodon + Psittacotherium.”

wiki/Honey_badger – Melivora
wiki/Patriofelis
wiki/Sarkastodon
wiki/Kerberos – not yet posted in wiki