Pliogale manka

Pliogale manka is an extinct mammal of the order Carnivora, placed by the Paleobiology Database in the skunk family Mephitidae and the genus Pliogale. It was named by Green in 1956, and the database gives his study of the lower Pliocene Ogallala-Wolf Creek vertebrate fauna of South Dakota as its primary reference. The database counts a single fossil occurrence, dated from the Serravallian stage to the Tortonian stage, roughly 12.5 to 9.4 million years ago. Its ecospace record gives a terrestrial, ground-dwelling way of life and a carnivore and omnivore diet, values the database takes from the order Carnivora, since fossils of the species itself do not show how it fed. The GBIF backbone taxonomy lists the name as an accepted species but files the genus under the family Mustelidae, so the two sources differ on its family.