江苏铜山上新世Promephitis一新种

本文记述了一个采自江苏铜山的原臭鼬类头骨化石.根据铜山标本自身的特征以及与 P. maeotica、P. lartetii 和 P. alexejewi 等相近类型的比较,我们认为它不同于目前已知的任何原臭鼬种,而是 Iromephitis 属中—新成员——P. maxima sp. nov.,其地质时代为上新世.

A PLIOCENE SPECIES OF PROMEPHITIS FROM TONGSHAN, JIANGSU

The specimen which forms the subject of the present paper is from the fillings of a limestone fissure in Daheishan of Tongshan County, Jiangsu Province, east China. The fillings mainly consist of violet sandy clay containing breccia, which is calcareously concreted. The specimen consisted of the conjoined skull and mandible which was found in a nodule. It is by far the most pmrfect specimen of the skunk fossils known in China. By comparisons with each one of the fossil species of Promephitis, the described specimen shows features distict from them. It represents a new evolutionary level of the genus, to which the name maxima may be affixed because of the largest size. XM——Xuzhou Museum, Jiangsu Province, China.