Buisnictis
| Buisnictis Temporal range: Early Pliocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Mephitidae |
| Genus: | †Buisnictis C. W. Hibbard 1950 |
| Type species | |
| Buisnictis breviramus C. W. Hibbard 1941
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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[edit]
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]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hibbard, C. W. (1941). "New Mammals from the Rexroad Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Kansas". American Midland Naturalist. 26 (2): 337–368.
- ^ Hibbard, C. W. (1954). "A New Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna From Oklahoma". Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 39: 339–359.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.776647. ISSN 1477-2019.
- ^ 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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