Circamustela

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Mid to Late Miocene

| taxon = Circamustela

| authority = Petter, 1967

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = *C. dechaseauxi (type)

• C. hartmanni
• C. peignei
• C.? laevidens

| synonyms = *Martes laevidens?

}}

Circamustela an extinct genus of gulonine mustelids, known from the Miocene of Europe{{Cite journal |last=Petter |first=G |date=1967 |title=Mustélidés nouveaux du Vallésien de Catalogne |journal=Annales de Paléontologie |volume=53 |pages=93–113}}. There are three definitively known species, C. dechaseauxi and C. peignei{{Cite journal |last1=Valenciano |first1=Alberto |last2=Pérez-Ramos |first2=Alejandro |last3=Abella |first3=Juan |last4=Morales |first4=Jorge |date=2020-04-02 |title=A new hypercarnivorous mustelid (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Batallones, late Miocene (MN10), Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain |url=https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a8 |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=42 |issue=8 |pages=103 |doi=10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a8 |bibcode=2020Geodv..42..103V |issn=1280-9659|url-access=subscription }}, both known from Spain, and C. hartmanni{{Cite journal |last1=Kargopoulos |first1=Nikolaos |last2=Valenciano |first2=Alberto |last3=Abella |first3=Juan |last4=Kampouridis |first4=Panagiotis |last5=Lechner |first5=Thomas |last6=Böhme |first6=Madelaine |date=2022-07-13 |title=The exceptionally high diversity of small carnivorans from the Late Miocene hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany) |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=17 |issue=7 |pages=e0268968 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0268968 |doi-access=free |pmid=35830447 |pmc=9278789 |bibcode=2022PLoSO..1768968K |issn=1932-6203}}, known from Germany, as well as a fourth, tentatively assigned species, C. laevidens{{Cite journal |last=Dehm |first=Richard |date=1950 |title=Die Raubtiere aus dem Mittel-Miocän (Burdigalium) von Wintershof-West bei Eichstätt in Bayern |url=https://publikationen.badw.de/de/003071385/003071385.pdf |journal=Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse |issue=58 |pages=1–141 |via=Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften}}, also from Germany.