Brachyopsigale dubius

Brachyopsigale dubius is an extinct mammal of the order Carnivora, placed by the Paleobiology Database in the skunk family Mephitidae and the genus Brachyopsigale. It was named by Hibbard in 1954, and the database gives his second contribution to the Rexroad Fauna as its primary reference. The database counts four fossil occurrences and dates its record from the Tortonian stage to the Calabrian stage, roughly 9.4 to 1.4 million years ago. Its ecospace record gives a terrestrial, ground-dwelling way of life and a carnivore and omnivore diet, values the database takes from the order Carnivora, since fossils of the species itself do not show how it fed. The GBIF backbone taxonomy lists the name as an accepted species but files the genus under the family Mustelidae, so the two sources differ on its family.