Procyon rexroadensis
| Procyon rexroadensis Temporal range: Piacenzian to Gelasian, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Procyonidae |
| Genus: | Procyon |
| Species: | †P. rexroadensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Procyon rexroadensis Hibbard, 1941 | |
Procyon rexroadensis is an extinct species of procyonid from the Late Blancan of Kansas, United States.[1]
The species was described in 1941 by Claude W. Hibbard. The fossil itself was collected from the Rexroad Formation in Meade County, Kansas. Procyon rexroadensis was long regarded as the oldest known species of Procyon. In 2025, the description of the older species Procyon garberi from the Late Miocene of California displaced it as the earliest known member of the genus.[2]
References
- ↑ Hibbard, Claude W. (1941). ""New Mammals from the Rexroad Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Kansas." The American Midland Naturalist, vol. 26, no. 2, 1941, pp. 337–68. JSTOR,". The American Midland Naturalist. 26 (2): 3–4. doi:10.2307/2420965. JSTOR 2420965.
- ↑ Wagner, Hugh M.; Wang, Xiaoming (2025). "A New Species of Raccoon, Procyon garberi, from Late Miocene (Late Hemphillian) Mehrten Formation, Stanislaus County, California". Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 123 (2): 61–78. doi:10.3160/0038-3872-123.2.61.