Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Full reference: C. S. Johnston. 1938. Preliminary report on the vertebrate type locality of Cita Canyon, and the description of an ancestral coyote. American Journal of Science 35(209):383-390
Belongs to Canis according to R. H. Tedford et al. 2009
See also Albright et al. 2019, Johnston 1938, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Wang et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Canis (Epicyon), Canis accitanus, Canis adoxus, 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 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, Nyctereutes terblanchei
Type specimen: West Texas University Museum 881, a skull (skull, lacking mandible). Its type locality is Cita Canyon, which is in a Blancan channel sandstone in Texas.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: Florida, South Carolina collections)
• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (33: California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 38 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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