A transitional skunk, Buisnictis metabatos sp nov (Mephitidae, Carnivora), from Baja California Sur and the role of southern refugia in skunk evolution | |
Wang, Xiaoming1,2,3; Carranza-Castaneda, Oscar4; Jorge Aranda-Gomez, Jose4; Wang, XM (reprint author), Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, 900 Exposit Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA. | |
2014-04-03 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY |
ISSN | 1477-2019 |
卷号 | 12期号:3页码:291-302 |
文章类型 | Article |
摘要 | Fossil records for basal New World skunks (subfamily Mephitinae) have been slowly but steadily increasing in recent years. Fossils for both living and extinct genera are now dense enough that actual evolutionary steps leading to living clades are beginning to be resolvable. We document a new species of the extinct, transitional genera Buisnictis, B. metabatos sp. nov., from Early Pliocene San Jose del Cabo Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico. B. metabatos possesses a combination of primitive and derived features, including a broadened P4 protocone shelf, a notch anterior to the m1 entoconid, and relatively unexpanded M1 lingual cingulum. It thus fills in yet another morphological gap and it is at a basal position within or just outside of the living skunk clade. Although current records are still far too scattered to resolve detailed zoogeographical patterns, we are in a position to speculate that since the Early Pliocene, southern North America and Central America have acted as a refugium for skunks. As a basal skunk, Buisnictis metabatos probably gave rise to the modern crown clade. There is evidence to suggest that both spotted skunks (Spilogale) and hog-nosed skunks (Conepatus) had their centres of diversification in Mexico or Central America. The only exception may be the striped and hooded skunks (Mephitis), which have a more northerly distribution.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4B6D618A-A25D-4855-AAD5-AE93DFE900C7 |
关键词 | Mephitidae Buisnictis Mexico Pliocene Zoogeography Refugium Zoobank Registration |
WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
关键词[WOS] | GULF-OF-CALIFORNIA ; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY ; GENUS SPILOGALE ; LOCAL FAUNA ; MAMMALIA ; PLIOCENE ; MEXICO ; REPRODUCTION ; MUSTELIDAE ; ORIGIN |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
项目资助者 | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico [Proyecto PAPIIT IN106311 DGAPA] |
WOS研究方向 | Evolutionary Biology ; Paleontology |
WOS类目 | Evolutionary Biology ; Paleontology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000332146100002 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/5169 |
专题 | 古哺乳动物研究室 |
通讯作者 | Wang, XM (reprint author), Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, 900 Exposit Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA. |
作者单位 | 1.Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 2.Nanjing Univ, Nanjing 210093, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 4.Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Ctr Geociencias, Juriquilla 76230, Qerretaro, Mexico |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wang, Xiaoming,Carranza-Castaneda, Oscar,Jorge Aranda-Gomez, Jose,et al. A transitional skunk, Buisnictis metabatos sp nov (Mephitidae, Carnivora), from Baja California Sur and the role of southern refugia in skunk evolution[J]. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY,2014,12(3):291-302. |
APA | Wang, Xiaoming,Carranza-Castaneda, Oscar,Jorge Aranda-Gomez, Jose,&Wang, XM .(2014).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. |
MLA | Wang, Xiaoming,et al."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(2014):291-302. |
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