Buisnictis schoffi is an extinct skunk of the genus Buisnictis, named by Hibbard in 1954 in a paper on a new Pliocene vertebrate fauna from Oklahoma, and now one of four accepted species in the genus. The Paleobiology Database counts five fossil occurrences and dates them from the Tortonian to the Calabrian stage, roughly 9.4 to 1.4 million years ago, the widest span recorded for any species of the genus. The genus Buisnictis lived in Pliocene North America, with fossils found from Washington to Baja California, and an analysis published in 2005 recovered it as a more derived skunk.
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Source Paleobiology Database: Buisnictis schoffiPrimary reference, paper titleQuote, Primary reference, paper title
A New Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna From Oklahoma
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1. Paleobiology Database: Buisnictis schoffi
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
Buisnictis is an extinct genus of skunk
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Lead, skunk
Buisnictis is an extinct genus of skunk
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