Buisnictis

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Buisnictis
Temporal range: 5.3–4  Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Family: Mephitidae
Genus:† Buisnictis
C. W. Hibbard 1950
Type species
Buisnictis breviramus
C. W. Hibbard 1941
Other Species
  • Buisnictis schoffiHibbard,1954
  • Buisnictis burrowsi Skinner and Hibbard, 1972
  • Buisnictis metabatos Wang et al. 2014
Synonyms
  • "Brachyprotoma" breviramusHibbard,1941
  • Buisnictis meadensisHibbard,1950

Buisnictis is an extinct genus of skunk from Pliocene North America, [1] ranging all the way from Washington to Baja California. There are currently four accepted species: Buisnictis breviramus, Buisnictis schoffi, Buisnictis burrowsi and Buisnictis metabatos. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Phylogeny

As of Wang, Whistler and Takeuchi, 2005, [6] Buisnictis was recovered as a more derived skunk, while in 2014 Wang, Carranza-Castañeda and Aranda Gómez suggested Buisnictis, specifically B. metabatos, may have been the ancestor of the crown Pleistocene skunks. [5]

Mephitidae

References

  1. ↑ Hibbard, C. W. (1950). "Mammals of the Rexroad Formation from Fox Canyon, Kansas". Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. 8 (6): 113–192.
  2. ↑ Hibbard, C. W. (1941). "New Mammals from the Rexroad Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Kansas". American Midland Naturalist. 26 (2): 337–368. doi:10.2307/2420965. JSTOR   2420965.
  3. ↑ Hibbard, C. W. (1954). "A New Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna From Oklahoma". Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 39: 339–359.
  4. ↑ Skinner, M. F.; Hibbard, C. W. (1974). "Early Pleistocene pre-glacial and glacial rocks and faunas of north-central Nebraska". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 148 (1): 1–148.
  5. 1 2 Wang, Xiaoming; Carranza-Castañeda, Óscar; Aranda-Gómez, José Jorge (2014-04-03). "A transitional skunk, Buisnictis metabatos sp. nov. (Mephitidae, Carnivora), from Baja California Sur and the role of southern refugia in skunk evolution" . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (3): 291–302. Bibcode:2014JSPal..12..291W. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.776647. ISSN   1477-2019.
  6. ↑ Wang, Xiaoming; Whistler, David P.; Takeuchi, Gary T. (2005-12-30). "A new basal skunk Martinogale (Carnivora, Mephitinae) from Late Miocene Dove Spring Formation, California, and origin of New World mephitines" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (4): 936–949. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0936:ANBSMC]2.0.CO;2. ISSN   0272-4634.


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