Martinogale nambiana

Martinogale nambiana is a doubtful extinct species of the fossil skunk genus Martinogale, named by Cope in 1874 from a handful of isolated teeth found in the Santa Fe Marls of New Mexico. Cope first called it Martes nambianus and a year later moved it to Mustela; when Hall set up the genus Martinogale he placed it there, where it has since stayed. In 2005 Wang and colleagues argued that the few features preserved on these teeth are too general to assign the specimen to Martinogale or to any definite genus, since they match the basal mustelid condition. The Paleobiology Database still lists it as a valid species of Martinogale in the skunk family Mephitidae, with no fossil occurrences recorded.