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Conepatus (hog-nosed skunk)
Taxonomy
Conepatus was named by Gray (1837). It is extant.
It was assigned to Mephitinae by Allen (1901), Kurten and Anderson (1980); to Mustelidae by Gray (1837), Schultz and Howard (1935), Carroll (1988); to Mephitini by Wang et al. (2005); and to Mephitidae by Wang and Carranza-Castaneda (2008).
It was assigned to Mephitinae by Allen (1901), Kurten and Anderson (1980); to Mustelidae by Gray (1837), Schultz and Howard (1935), Carroll (1988); to Mephitini by Wang et al. (2005); and to Mephitidae by Wang and Carranza-Castaneda (2008).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1837 | Conepatus Gray |
| 1838 | Thiosmus Lichtenstein |
| 1901 | Conepatus Allen p. 332 |
| 1935 | Conepatus Schultz and Howard p. 283 |
| 1980 | Conepatus Kurten and Anderson p. 164 |
| 1988 | Conepatus Carroll |
| 2005 | Conepatus Wang et al. p. 937 |
| 2008 | Conepatus Wang and Carranza-Castaneda p. 388 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Conepatus Gray 1837 [hog-nosed skunk]
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†Conepatus altiramus Reig 1952
Conepatus chinga Molina 1782 [Molina's hog-nosed skunk]
†Conepatus cordubensis Ameghino 1889
Conepatus humboldtii Gray 1837 [Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk]
Conepatus leuconotus Lichtenstein 1832 [eastern hog-nosed skunk]
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Invalid names: Mephitis mesoleucus Lichtenstein 1832 [synonym]
†Conepatus mercedensis Ameghino 1875
†Conepatus primaevus Burmeister 1864
†Conepatus robustus Martin 1978
†Conepatus sanmiguelensis Wang and Carranza-Castaneda 2008
Conepatus semistriatus Boddaert 1785 [striped hog-nosed skunk]
Conepatus suffocans Illiger 1811
†Conepatus talarae Churcher and Van Zyll de Jong 1965
Invalid names: Thiosmus Lichtenstein 1838 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Body mass estimates
| estimate | equation | reference |
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| 1.59 kg | Mammalia femur diameter | Gingerich 1990 |
| 2.52 kg | Mammalia humerus diameter | Gingerich 1990 |
| 1.66 kg | Mammalia tibia diameter | Gingerich 1990 |
| mean: 1.88 kg | ||
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| femur diameter | 1 | 6.00 | |||||
| humerus diameter | 1 | 7.00 | |||||
| radius diameter | 1 | 8.50 | |||||
| tibia diameter | 1 | 5.70 |
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| Source: g = genus, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Gebo and Rose 1993, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Hemphillian to the top of the Holocene or 9.40000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 4.7 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 4.7 Ma
Collections (29 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Hemphillian | Mexico (Jalisco) | Conepatus sanmiguelensis (18745 189790) | |
| Hemphillian | Mexico (Guanajuato) | Conepatus sanmiguelensis (18718) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Bolivia (Tarija ) | Conepatus suffocans (70673) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Bolivia | Conepatus suffocans (142016) | |
| Pleistocene | Peru (Ayacucho) | Conepatus sp. (146602) | |
| Ensenadan | Argentina (Buenos Aires) | Conepatus sp. (199170) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | Conepatus sp. (20289) | |
| Lujanian | Peru (Piura) | Conepatus sp. (145500) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Florida) | Conepatus leuconotus (20491) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Peru | Conepatus sp. (212474 212475) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (New Mexico) | Conepatus mesoleucus (93281) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Florida) | Conepatus leuconotus (20593 20634 20650) Conepatus robustus (79667) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mexico (Nuevo Leon) | Conepatus sp. (71345) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Piaui) | Conepatus sp. (71331) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Piauí) | Conepatus sp. (211632) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Georgia) | Conepatus leuconotus (13066) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | Brazil (Bahia) | Conepatus semistriatus (136498) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene (glacial) | Brazil (Bahia) | Conepatus semistriatus (136500) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Brazil (Bahia) | Conepatus semistriatus (71313) | |
| Holocene | Peru | Conepatus rex (71326 71327 71328 71329) | |
| Holocene | Venezuela (Guarico) | Conepatus semistriatus (21686) |