Brachyprotoma_obtusata

<i>Brachyprotoma</i>

Brachyprotoma

Extinct genus of carnivores

Brachyprotoma obtusata (also known as the short-faced skunk) is an extinct genus of skunk of the Pleistocene epoch what is now North America.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    Cope, Edward D. (1899). "Vertebrate remains from Port Kennedy bone deposit". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Ser. 2. 11 (2): 236–237.
  2. [2]
    Youngman, Phillip M. (1986). "The extinct short-faced skunk Brachyprotoma obtusata (Mammalia, Carnivora): first records for Canada and Beringia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 23 (2): 419–424. doi:10.1139/e86-043.


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