Bassariscus ogallalae is an extinct species of procyonid, a member of the raccoon family, described by C. W. Hibbard in 1933 in a paper on a new Bassariscus from the Lower Pliocene of Nebraska. The Paleobiology Database records three fossil occurrences, in Keith County, Nebraska, and in Ellis and Wallace counties, Kansas, and dates the species from the Burdigalian to the Zanclean stages, between about 16.3 and 4.7 million years ago. It belongs to the genus Bassariscus, which also holds the living ringtail and cacomistle.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
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Found In
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Source The Paleobiology Database: Occurrences of Bassariscus ogallalaeOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"state": "Kansas"
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source The Paleobiology Database: Occurrences of Bassariscus ogallalaeOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"state": "Nebraska"
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1. Bassariscus ogallalae (Paleobiology Database)
Taxon record, extant status
"is_extant": "extinct"
Ecospace record, environment
"taxon_environment": "terrestrial"
Ecospace record, diet, taken from Procyonidae
"diet": "frugivore, carnivore"
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Taxon record, classification order
"order": "Carnivora"
View the Source2. Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
Extinct taxa
†B. ogallalae Hibbard, 1933
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†B. ogallalae Hibbard, 1933
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