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Conepatus talarae Churcher & van Zyll de Jong, 1965

Talar skunk

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Peru

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Churcher, C. S. and van Zyll de Jong, C. G. (1965). Conepatus talarae n. sp. from the Talara tar-seeps, Peru. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions 62: 1-15.

 

Other references:

Seymour, Kevin L. (2015). Perusing Talara: Overview of the Late Pleistocene Fossils from the Tar Seeps of Peru, pp. 97-109. In: Harris, John M. (ed.). La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt-Preserved Biotas. Los Angeles, California: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series No. 42. 174 pp.

 

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