Brachyprotoma

Brachyprotoma; Temporal range: Pleistocene
	An ink drawing of an American Mastodon calf encountering a short-faced skunk, Brachyprotoma.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Mephitidae
Genus:	Brachyprotoma; Brown 1908
Species:	B. obtusata
Binomial name
	Brachyprotoma obtusata; Cope 1899

Brachyprotoma, also known as the short-faced skunks, is an extinct genus of large skunk that inhabited Pleistocene North America, with specimens having been found from Yukon to West Virgina.^[1]^[2]^[3] There currently exists only one accepted species, Brachyprotoma obtusata.^[4]

^ Harington, C. R. (1978). "Quaternary vertebrate faunas of Canada and Alaska and their suggested chronological sequence". Syllogeus. 15: 1–105.
^ Grady, F.; Garton, E. R. (2000). "Paleontology and historic field trip of the John Guilday Cave Preserve (Trout Rock)". The Caves of East-central West Virginia. 14: 241–244.
^ Youngman, Phillip M. (1986). "The extinct short-faced skunk Brachyprotoma obtusata (Mammalia, Carnivora): first records for Canada and Beringia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 23 (2): 419–424. Bibcode:1986CaJES..23..419Y. doi:10.1139/e86-043.
^ Cope, Edward D. (1899). "Vertebrate remains from Port Kennedy bone deposit". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Ser. 2. 11 (2): 236–237.

[1] Harington, C. R. (1978). "Quaternary vertebrate faunas of Canada and Alaska and their suggested chronological sequence". Syllogeus. 15: 1–105.

[2] Grady, F.; Garton, E. R. (2000). "Paleontology and historic field trip of the John Guilday Cave Preserve (Trout Rock)". The Caves of East-central West Virginia. 14: 241–244.

[3] Youngman, Phillip M. (1986). "The extinct short-faced skunk Brachyprotoma obtusata (Mammalia, Carnivora): first records for Canada and Beringia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 23 (2): 419–424. Bibcode:1986CaJES..23..419Y. doi:10.1139/e86-043.

[4] Cope, Edward D. (1899). "Vertebrate remains from Port Kennedy bone deposit". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Ser. 2. 11 (2): 236–237.

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