Buisnictis Explained

Buisnictis is an extinct genus of skunk from Pliocene North America,^[1] ranging all the way from Washington to Baja California. There are currently four accepted species: Buisnictis breviramus, Buisnictis schoffi, Buisnictis burrowsi and Buisnictis metabatos.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Phylogeny

As of Wang, Whistler and Takeuchi, 2005,^[6] Buisnictis was recovered as a more derived skunk, while in 2014 Wang, Carranza-Castañeda and Aranda Gómez suggested Buisnictis, specifically B. metabatos, may have been the ancestor of the crown pleistocene skunks.

Notes and References

1. Hibbard . C. W. . 1950 . Mammals of the Rexroad Formation from Fox Canyon, Kansas . Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan . 8 . 6 . 113-192.
2. Hibbard . C. W. . 1941 . New Mammals from the Rexroad Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Kansas. . American Midland Naturalist . 26 . 2 . 337-368.
3. Hibbard . C. W. . 1954 . A New Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna From Oklahoma. . Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters . 39 . 339-359.
4. Skinner . M. F. . Hibbard . C. W. . 1974 . Early Pleistocene pre-glacial and glacial rocks and faunas of north-central Nebraska. . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 148 . 1 . 1-148.
5. Wang . Xiaoming . Carranza-Castañeda . Óscar . Aranda-Gómez . José Jorge . 2014-04-03 . A transitional skunk, Buisnictis metabatos sp. nov. (Mephitidae, Carnivora), from Baja California Sur and the role of southern refugia in skunk evolution . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . en . 12 . 3 . 291–302 . 10.1080/14772019.2013.776647 . 1477-2019.
6. Wang . Xiaoming . Whistler . David P. . Takeuchi . Gary T. . 2005-12-30 . A new basal skunk Martinogale (Carnivora, Mephitinae) from Late Miocene Dove Spring Formation, California, and origin of New World mephitines . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . en . 25 . 4 . 936–949 . 10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0936:ANBSMC]2.0.CO;2 . 0272-4634.