Bassariscus parvus is an extinct species of procyonid, a member of the raccoon family, described by E. Raymond Hall in 1927 in a paper on the species of the mammalian subfamily Bassaricinae. The Paleobiology Database records two fossil occurrences, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and dates the species from the Burdigalian to the Serravallian stages of the Miocene, between about 16.3 and 12.5 million years ago. It belongs to the genus Bassariscus, which also holds the living ringtail and cacomistle, and the database gives it an arboreal habit taken from that genus.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
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Source The Paleobiology Database: Occurrences of Bassariscus parvusOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"state": "New Mexico"
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1. Bassariscus parvus (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. parvus Hall, 1927
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†B. parvus Hall, 1927
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