Conepatus robustus, the Florida hog-nosed skunk, is an extinct species of skunk known from the Sangamonian of Florida, and it was named by Martin in 1978 in a paper on a new Late Pleistocene Conepatus and the vertebrate fauna found with it. It was larger than any living species of hog-nosed skunk and would have been the largest living skunk at the time it existed. The Paleobiology Database accepts the species, counts two fossil occurrences and places them in the Late Pleistocene, roughly 129,000 to 11,700 years ago.
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known from the Sangamonian of Florida
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1. Paleobiology Database: Conepatus robustus
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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known from the Sangamonian of Florida
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was larger than any living species of hog-nosed skunk
Child Taxon Of: Conepatus, Lead, genus
Conepatus robustus, the Florida hog-nosed skunk, is an extinct species of skunk
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Lead, skunk
is an extinct species of skunk
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