''Osmotherium'' is an extinct genus of Mephitidae, skunk from Pleistocene North America. it contains a single species, ''Osmotherium spelaeum''. The genus name, ''Osmotherium'', hails from Ancient Greek, Aincient Greek, ''osmḗ'', "smell"; and ''therium'', "beast"; meaning smelly beast. The species name, ''spelaeum'', Latin for "cave", in reference to the sole locality which its remains have been found in, Port Kennedy Bone Cave. While fragmentary, ''Osmotherium spelaeum'''s jaws are the most prominent of any other Mephitid in the locality, with Cope himself describing 6 different specimens, although attributing some to ''Mephitis (genus), Mephitis'', ''Brachyprotoma'' and the now defunct ''Pelycictis.''Hall, E. R. (1936). ''Mustelid Mammals from the Pleistocene of North America: With Systematic Notes on Some Recent Members of the Gerera Mustela, Taxidea and Mephitis''.Daeschler, E., Spamer, E. E., & Parris, D. C. (1993)
Review and new data on the Port Kennedy local fauna and flora (Late Irvingtonian), Valley Forge National Historical Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
''The Mosasaur'', ''5'', 23–41. While information on these fragmentary remains scarce, in 2005 Wang et al.'s description of ''Martinogale, Martinogale faulli'', ''Osmotherium'' was recovered as a sister genus to ''Mephitis (genus), Mephitis'':

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Skunks Prehistoric caniforms Extinct animals of the United States Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope Fossil taxa described in 1896 Monotypic prehistoric carnivoran genera {{paleo-carnivora-stub