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{{Short description|Genus of carnivores}}
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| fossil_range = [[Pliocene]] – recent<ref name=SamuelsBredehoeft2018>{{cite journal|last1=Samuels|first1=Joshua X.|last2=Bredehoeft|first2=Keila E.|last3=Wallace|first3=Steven C.|title=A new species of ''Gulo'' from the Early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site (Eastern United States); rethinking the evolution of wolverines|journal=PeerJ|volume=6|year=2018|article-number=e4648|issn=2167-8359|doi=10.7717/peerj.4648|pmc=5910791|pmid=29682423 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| image = Wolverine 01.jpg
| taxon = Gulo
| authority = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]], 1780
| type_species = ''[[Gulo gulo|Gulo sibiricus]]''<ref>{{MSW3|id=14001165}}</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = *{{Taxonabbr|G|ulo|gulo}}
*{{Taxonabbr|G|ulo|minor}} [[extinction|†]]
*{{Taxonabbr|G|ulo|schlosseri}} †
*{{Taxonabbr|G|ulo|sudorus}} †
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'''''Gulo''''' is a [[genus]] of [[carnivoran]] [[mammals]] in the family [[Mustelidae]]. It contains one [[Extant taxon|extant]] [[species]], the [[wolverine]] (''G. gulo''), as well as several [[extinct]] ones. [[Fossil record|Fossil evidence]] suggests that this genus appeared in [[North America]] and later spread to [[Eurasia]] during the [[Pliocene]]. Diagnostic traits include a strongly reduced [[premolar|P2]], a robust [[premolar|P4]] with three roots, and upper [[molar teeth|molars]] smaller than in other [[Guloninae|gulonines]]. Overall, the teeth are [[adaptation (biology)|adapted]] for [[hypercarnivory]].<ref name=SamuelsBredehoeft2018/>

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{{Carnivora|M.}}
{{Musteloidea|Mae.|state=collapsed}}
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[[Category:Carnivora genera]]
[[Category:Mammal genera with one living species]]
[[Category:Guloninae]]


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