Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Full reference: R. Martin. 1971. Trois nouvelles espèces de Caninae (Canidae, Carnivora) des gisements Plio-Villafranchiens d'Europe. Travaux et Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de Lyon 57(1):87-96
Belongs to Canis according to R. Martin 1971
See also Spassov and Rook 2006 and Wang et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Canis (Epicyon), Canis accitanus, Canis apolloniensis, Canis armbrusteri, Canis arnensis, Canis aureus, Canis borjgali, Canis cana, Canis cedazoensis, Canis ceylonicus, Canis chihliensis, Canis cipio, Canis culpaeus, Canis dingo, Canis edwardii, Canis etruscus, Canis familiaris, Canis feneus, Canis geismarianus, Canis gezi, Canis hewitti, Canis incertus, Canis latidentatus, Canis latrans, Canis lepophagus, Canis longdanensis, Canis lupaster, Canis lupus, Canis lydekkeri, Canis megamastoides, Canis michauxi, Canis monticinensis, Canis mosbachensis, Canis osorum, Canis othmanii, Canis palaeoplatensis, Canis palmidens, Canis proplatensis, Canis rufus, Canis sechurae, Canis senezensis, Canis simensis, Canis tarijensis, Canis teilhardi, Canis thooides, Canis troglodytes, Canis variabilis, Canis vetulus, Lupulus, Nyctereutes terblanchei, Thos terblanchei
Type specimen: Basel Natural History Museum, RSS 45, a skull. Its type locality is Saint-Estève, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial horizon in France.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution: found only at Saint-Estève
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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