Promephitis alexejewi

Promephitis alexejewi is an extinct skunk named by Schlosser in 1924, one of eleven species currently recognised in the genus Promephitis. The Wikipedia article on the genus spells the epithet alexjewi, while the Paleobiology Database uses alexejewi. The Paleobiology Database accepts it as a valid species but lists no fossil occurrence for it, so no dated range is recorded here. Promephitis belongs to the skunk family Mephitidae and is known from Miocene and Pliocene fossils of Europe and Asia. Its species are told apart from other carnivorans by a distinctive fourth premolar and a very small second premolar, and the genus has been likened to the two living stink badgers of Southeast Asia.