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