Promephitis larteti is the type species of Promephitis, an extinct genus of skunks that lived in Europe and Asia during the Miocene and Early Pliocene. Both the genus and this species were described in 1861 by Jean Albert Gaudry from a fossil found at Pikermi in Greece. The genus is recognisable by an extension of the middle ear chamber into the mastoid and squamous parts of the temporal bone, a distinctive fourth premolar and a very small second premolar, and early finds consisted mainly of teeth or fragments of jaw bones. Species of the genus have been likened to the two living stink badgers of the genus Mydaus, and the genus together with the stink badgers is probably the sister group of Palaeomephitis steinheimensis.
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Source Promephitis (Wikipedia)Taxonomy, type localityQuote, Taxonomy, type locality
from a fossil found at Pikermi in Greece
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1. Paleobiology Database: Promephitis larteti (Paleobiology Database)
Paleobiology DatabaseTaxon record, extant status (extinct)
"is_extant": "extinct"
Ecospace record, environment
"taxon_environment": "terrestrial"
Ecospace record, diet
"diet": "carnivore, omnivore"
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Taxonomy, type locality
from a fossil found at Pikermi in Greece
Child Taxon Of: Mephitidae, Lead, kind of animal
Promephitis is an extinct genus of mephitid
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Lead, kind of animal
Promephitis is an extinct genus of mephitid
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