Blancan Carnivore Trigonictis 
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ing. Meanwhile, synonymizing any of the three is not justifiable. The 
status and relationships of Canimartes cumminsii can be assessed only 
after addition of new material. 
For the present it seems best to regard the Galictinae as including at 
least the genera Trigonictis and Sminthosinis in North America, Enhy- 
drictis and Pannonictis in Eurasia, and Galictis, Grisonella, Eira, and 
Lyncodon in South America. Of these, Trigonictis apparently is the most 
primitive, standing closest to Trochictis, the probable ancestor to the 
group. 
Trigonictis cookii (Gazin), 1934 
Fig. 7 
Lutravus(?) cookii Gazin 1934:142-143, fig. 2, table 1. 
Canimartes ? cookii, Gazin 1937:363-364. 
Canimartes(?) coocki, Reig 1957:33. 
Caminartes(?) cooki, Reig 1957:41. 
Canimartes(?) cooki, Reig 1957:42,44. 
Trigonictis cookii, Zakrzewski 1967:293-297. — Hibbard 1972a: 109 
(part). — Kurten and Anderson 1980:156. 
Trigonictis cooki, Shotwell 1970:82, fig. 37J-L. — Bjork 1970:24-26, 
fig. 14. — Galbreath 1972:786. — Hibbard 1972a: 128, fig. 50. — 
Gustafson 1978:39-41 (part). 
Holotype. — USNM 12606, partial right mandibular ramus, lacking 
anterior and posterior extremities and most of ventral margin; retaining 
Pj - Mj- well preserved except part of metaconid missing from Mf, retain- 
ing alveolus and partial root of Mj, partial alveoli of anterior and poste- 
rior roots of Pj with part of posterior root, and posterior wall of alveolus 
of canine. 
Referred material. — From the western United States, the specimens 
assigned to the species by Zakrzewski (1967), Shotwell (1970:82), and 
Bjork (1970:24-25), and one specimen, F:AM 49160, assigned to the spe- 
cies by Hibbard (1972a: 109, fig. 50); possibly as yet undescribed speci- 
mens from Texas and California (Kurten and Anderson 1980:156); also 
USNM 25128, incomplete left mandibular ramus with Pj, from Hager- 
man, Idaho, collected by C. L. Gazin, 1934. 
From the eastern United States, tentatively referred herein, UF/FSM 
27509, well preserved right mandibular ramus lacking anterior extremity, 
with Pj and M^; collected May 1973 by UF/FSM staff at Haile XVI A, 
Alachua Co., Florida. 
From the same locality in Florida, there is a complete right humerus, 
UF/FSM 27510, of a mustelid, rather similar in its distal half to that of 
T. cookii reported by Bjork (1970:26, fig. 14a), though slightly smaller 
and lacking the entepicondylar foramen, characteristic only of the skunks 
