Promephitis maeotica is an extinct skunk named by Alexejew in 1916, one of eleven species currently recognised in the genus Promephitis. The Paleobiology Database accepts it as a valid species, counts two fossil occurrences, and dates the record from the Tortonian to the Zanclean stage, roughly 11.6 to 5.1 million years ago. 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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Source Paleobiology Database: Paleobiology Database: occurrences of Promephitis maeoticaOccurrence 1426052, countryQuote, Occurrence 1426052, country
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Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Paleobiology Database: Paleobiology Database: occurrences of Promephitis maeoticaOccurrence 706352, countryQuote, Occurrence 706352, country
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1. Paleobiology Database: Promephitis maeotica
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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