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- Title
Earliest hog-nosed skunk, Conepatus (Mephitidae, Carnivora), from the early Pliocene of Guanajuato, Mexico and origin of South American skunks.
- Authors
XIAOMING WANG; CARRANZA-CASTAÑEDA, ÓSCAR
- Abstract
The hog-nosed skunk, Conepatus Gray, 1837, is one of the most widespread carnivorans in the New World, and one of the first to arrive in South America during the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI). We report a basal hog-nosed skunk, Conepatus sanmiguelensis sp. nov., from the early Pliocene San Miguel de Allende Basin, Guanajuato State, central Mexico. The Mexican species greatly extends the first appearance of Conepatus from Irvingtonian to early Blancan in North America, more than doubling the time period of previously known appearances. The new species of Conepatus is also geographically closer to the Panamanian land bridge than previous records from the United States and northern Mexico, and permits a better sense of the faunal exchange during the early phase of the GABI...
- Subjects
GUANAJUATO (Mexico); MEXICO; HOG-nosed skunks; SKUNKS; CARNIVORA; PLIOCENE paleoecology
- Publication
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008, Vol 154, Issue 2, p386
- ISSN
0024-4082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00411.x