Buisnictis

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]

Buisnictis Temporal range: 5.3–4 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Early Pliocene
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Mephitidae
Genus:	†Buisnictis C. W. Hibbard 1950
Type species
Buisnictis breviramus C. W. Hibbard 1941
Other Species
Buisnictis schoffi Hibbard,1954 Buisnictis burrowsi Skinner and Hibbard, 1972 Buisnictis metabatos Wang et al. 2014
Synonyms
"Brachyprotoma" breviramus Hibbard,1941 Buisnictis meadensis Hibbard,1950

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.^[5]

Mephitidae	Mydaus Palaeomephitis Promephitis Mephitini Martinogale faulli Martinogale chisoensis Martinogale alveodens Buisnictis Spilogale Brachyprotoma Mephitis Osmotherium Conepatus

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. 12 (3): 291–302. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.776647. ISSN 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. 25 (4): 936–949. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0936:ANBSMC]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0272-4634.