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Conepatus robustus

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Conepatus robustus
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mephitidae
Genus: Conepatus
Species:
C. robustus
Binomial name
Conepatus robustus
(Martin, 1978)[1]

Conepatus robustus, the Florida hog-nosed skunk, is an extinct species of skunk known from the Sangamonian of Florida.[2]

The Florida hog-nosed skunk was larger than any living species of hog-nosed skunk,[3] and would have been the largest living skunk at the time it existed.

References

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  1. ^ "Conepatus robustus". Fossilworks.
  2. ^ Martin, Robert A. (1978). "A New Late Pleistocene Conepatus and Associated Vertebrate Fauna from Florida". Journal of Paleontology. 52 (5): 1079–1085. JSTOR 1303853.
  3. ^ Graham, Russell W. (2003). Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America. Indiana University Press. p. 240. ISBN 9780253342683.