Musteloidea

Musteloidea; Temporal range: Oligocene–Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Left-right: spotted skunk, red panda, wolverine and raccoon; representing the families Mephitidae, Ailuridae, Mustelidae and Procyonidae.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Infraorder:	Arctoidea
Superfamily:	Musteloidea; Fischer, 1817
Families
	Ailuridae; Mephitidae; type); Procyonidae; Incertae sedis †Peignictis; ;

Musteloidea is a

superfamily of carnivoran mammals united by shared characteristics of the skull and teeth. Musteloids are the sister group of pinnipeds, the group which includes seals.^[1]

Musteloidea comprises the following families:

Ailuridae, the red panda (and its extinct kin).

Mephitidae, the skunks and stink badgers.

sables, minks, river and sea otters, stoats and ermines, tayras and wolverines
.

ringtails and cacomistles
.

In

ursids (bears) and musteloids first appeared in the Chadronian^{[citation needed]} of the late Eocene, and in early-Oligocene Europe, immediately following the Grande Coupure

extinction event.

The following

molecular phylogeny of six genes in Flynn (2005),^[2] with the musteloids updated following the multigene analysis of Law et al. (2018).^[3]

Caniformia

Canidae (dogs and other canines)