Arctonasua floridana is an extinct species of procyonid, a member of the raccoon family, described by J. A. Baskin in 1982 in his review of the Tertiary procyonines of North America. It is named for Florida, where the Paleobiology Database records its one fossil occurrence, in Alachua County, and dates it from the Serravallian to the Tortonian stages, between about 12.5 and 9.4 million years ago. The Wikipedia article on the genus Arctonasua, whose name means bear coati, puts the Alachua County specimens at an estimated age of about 11.5 million years and calls the genus a raccoon-like procyonid of the Miocene that lived only in North America.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
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Found In
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Source The Paleobiology Database: Occurrences of Arctonasua floridanaOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"state": "Florida"
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1. Arctonasua floridana (Paleobiology Database)
Taxon record, extant status
"is_extant": "extinct"
Ecospace record, environment
"taxon_environment": "terrestrial"
Ecospace record, diet, taken from Procyonidae
"diet": "frugivore, carnivore"
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Taxon record, classification order
"order": "Carnivora"
View the Source2. Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
Extinct taxa
†A. floridana J.A. Baskin, 1982
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†A. floridana J.A. Baskin, 1982
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