Pliogale furlongi

Pliogale furlongi is an extinct skunk named by J. C. Merriam in 1911, in his paper Tertiary Mammal Beds of Virgin Valley and Thousand Creek in Northwestern Nevada, Part II, Vertebrate Faunas. The Paleobiology Database accepts it as a valid species of the genus Pliogale in the skunk family Mephitidae, counts three fossil occurrences and dates the record from the Tortonian to the Zanclean stage, roughly 9.4 to 4.7 million years ago. It lists the animal as terrestrial, actively mobile and ground dwelling, and as a carnivore or omnivore. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists the same name as a synonym of Mustela furlongi in the weasel family Mustelidae, so the family placement of this species is not settled across databases.