Buisnictis

Buisnictis; Temporal range: 5.3–4 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Early Pliocene
Scientific classification
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
Other Species
	Buisnictis schoffi Hibbard,1954 ; Buisnictis burrowsi Skinner and Hibbard, 1972 ; Buisnictis metabatos Wang et al. 2014;
Synonyms
	"Brachyprotoma" breviramus Hibbard,1941 ; Buisnictis meadensis Hibbard,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

	Mydaus

	Palaeomephitis

	Promephitis

Mephitini

Martinogale faulli

Martinogale chisoensis

Martinogale alveodens

Buisnictis

Spilogale

Brachyprotoma

	Mephitis

	Osmotherium

Conepatus

References

^ 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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[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.

[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.

[:0-5] 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.

[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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