No.:!,ON SOME MUSTELIN AE FROM TH E PLIOCENE BONE BRECCIA

Study on the Ter ti ary bone brecc ia fa una from Wc::ze ne ar Dzialoszyn in P oland PART X · A bst ract.- T his pape r describes the rema in s of skulls a nd mandib les of three ·s pecies, namely Mustela pliocaeni ca n. sp., Mustela plioerminea n. sp. a nd Martes wenzensis n. sp. By their characteristic fe atures a ll the three described spe cies com e very near to thei r Pl eistocen e representatives as well as to the livi ng forms. I NT RODUCTIO N Several interesting large r carnivores 1 have, so far, been described from the P liocene bone breccia in Wf;ze near Dzial oszyn (province of Lo dz). The writer has now iden tified from the sa me breccia the remains ·of their smaller relatives fr om the mustelid grou p. They are: Mustel