Conepatus robustus
| Conepatus robustus Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Mephitidae |
| Genus: | Conepatus |
| Species: | †C. robustus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Conepatus robustus (Martin, 1978)[1]
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Conepatus robustus, the Florida hog-nosed skunk, is an extinct species of skunk known from the Sangamonian of Florida.[2]
The Florida hog-nosed skunk was larger than any living species of hog-nosed skunk,[3] and would have been the largest living skunk at the time it existed.
References
[edit]- ^ "Conepatus robustus". Fossilworks.
- ^ Martin, Robert A. (1978). "A New Late Pleistocene Conepatus and Associated Vertebrate Fauna from Florida". Journal of Paleontology. 52 (5): 1079–1085. JSTOR 1303853.
- ^ Graham, Russell W. (2003). Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America. Indiana University Press. p. 240. ISBN 9780253342683.