Promephitis hootoni is an extinct skunk named by Senyurek in 1954, one of eleven species currently recognised in the genus Promephitis. 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.
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System (Realm) Living or Extinct Conservation Status Connections
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Source Promephitis (Wikipedia)
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1. Paleobiology Database: Promephitis hootoni
Paleobiology DatabaseTaxon record, extant status
"is_extant": "extinct"
Ecospace record, environment
"taxon_environment": "terrestrial"
Ecospace record, diet (carnivore)
"diet": "carnivore, omnivore"
Ecospace record, diet (omnivore)
"diet": "carnivore, omnivore"
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Child Taxon Of: Mephitidae, Lead, family
Promephitis is an extinct genus of mephitid
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Characteristics, carnivorans
which distinguish them from other carnivora
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