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Eomellivora  is a large-bodied mellivorine mustelid genus widely distributed throughout Eurasia and North America during the late Miocene (MN9-MN13). Here, we report the oldest Eurasian material of  Eomellivora  based on a palate and two mandibular fragments from ACM/PTA-A2, a pre-Vallesian (11.21 Ma; latest MN7+8) locality of Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) that slightly predates the first appearance datum of  Hippotherium  by ~30 kyr. The described material differs from  Hoplictis helbingi  – another large mustelid recorded within the same basin in the roughly coeval site of Castell de Barberà (~11.2, earliest MN9) – and more closely resembles  Eomellivora  spp. Despite closer resemblances in both size and dental shape with the Vallesian (MN9–MN10) species  Eomellivora piveteaui , the ACM material differs in possessing multiple features that may be considered plesiomorphic. A new species,  Eomellivora moralesi  sp. nov., is thus erected based on the described material. A cladistic analysis confirms that the new species occupies a basal-most position within the  Eomellivora  clade, in agreement with its older age and more plesiomorphic morphology.

A new species of Eomellivora from the latest Aragonian of Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)