Brachyprotoma
Appearance
Brachyprotoma obtusata Temporal range: Pleistocene
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Genus: | Brachyprotoma Brown, 1908
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Species: | B. obtusata
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Brachyprotoma obtusata |
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]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 15 May 2016.