Nasua mastodonta is an extinct species of coati, a member of the raccoon family, described by Emmert and Short in 2018 in a paper on three new procyonids from the Blancan of Florida. The Paleobiology Database records three fossil occurrences, in Alachua, Gilchrist and Levy counties, and dates the species from the Zanclean to the Calabrian stages, between about 4.7 and 0.77 million years ago. It belongs to the genus Nasua, which also holds the living South American and white-nosed coatis, whose diet the database takes to be carnivore and omnivore.
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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
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source The Paleobiology Database: Occurrences of Nasua mastodontaOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"state": "Florida"
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1. Nasua mastodonta (Paleobiology Database)
Taxon record, extant status
"is_extant": "extinct"
Ecospace record, environment
"taxon_environment": "terrestrial"
Ecospace record, diet, taken from Nasua
"diet": "carnivore, omnivore"
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Taxon record, classification order
"order": "Carnivora"
View the Source2. Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
Extinct taxa
†N. mastodonta Emmert & Short, 2018
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†N. mastodonta Emmert & Short, 2018
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