Promephitis majori is an extinct skunk named by Pilgrim in 1933, one of eleven species currently recognised in the genus Promephitis. Pilgrim's paper is titled A fossil skunk from Samos. The Paleobiology Database accepts the species, counts one fossil occurrence and dates it to the Messinian stage, roughly 7.2 to 5.3 million years ago. Promephitis belongs to the skunk family Mephitidae and is known from Miocene and Pliocene fossils of Europe and Asia. Its species are told apart from other carnivorans by a distinctive fourth premolar and a very small second premolar, and the genus has been likened to the two living stink badgers of Southeast Asia.
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Source Paleobiology Database: Promephitis majoriPrimary reference, paper titleQuote, Primary reference, paper title
A fossil skunk from Samos
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1. Paleobiology Database: Promephitis majori
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
Promephitis is an extinct genus of mephitid
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Characteristics, carnivorans
which distinguish them from other carnivora
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