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Conepatus robustus

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Extinct species of skunk

Conepatus robustus
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mephitidae
Genus: Conepatus
Species: C. robustus
Binomial name
Conepatus robustus
(Martin, 1978)

Conepatus robustus, the Florida hog-nosed skunk, is an extinct species of skunk known from the Sangamonian of Florida.

The Florida hog-nosed skunk was larger than any living species of hog-nosed skunk, and would have been the largest living skunk at the time it existed.

References

  1. "Conepatus robustus". Fossilworks.
  2. Martin, Robert A. (1978). "A New Late Pleistocene Conepatus and Associated Vertebrate Fauna from Florida". Journal of Paleontology. 52 (5): 1079–1085. JSTOR 1303853.
  3. Graham, Russell W. (2003). Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America. Indiana University Press. p. 240. ISBN 9780253342683.
Taxon identifiers
Conepatus robustus
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