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Taxonomy
Hyaena picta was named by Temminck (1820). It is extant.
It was recombined as Lycaon pictus by van Gelder (1978), Peters (1990), Steudel and Beattie (1993), Wang et al. (2008) and Geraads (2011).
It was recombined as Lycaon pictus by van Gelder (1978), Peters (1990), Steudel and Beattie (1993), Wang et al. (2008) and Geraads (2011).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1820 | Hyaena picta Temminck |
1978 | Lycaon pictus van Gelder |
1990 | Lycaon pictus Peters p. 85 |
1993 | Lycaon pictus Steudel and Beattie |
2008 | Lycaon pictus Wang et al. |
2011 | Lycaon pictus Geraads |
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Lycaon pictus Temminck 1820 [African wild dog]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002 |
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (11 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Pleistocene | South Africa | Lycaon pictus (21929 21931 21956) | |
Pleistocene | Morocco | Lycaon pictus (22489) | |
Pleistocene | Kenya | Lycaon pictus (21963) | |
Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | Lycaon pictus (21949) | |
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya | Lycaon pictus (21277) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa | Lycaon pictus (115184) | |
Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Lycaon pictus (22067 22068) | |
Holocene | Tanzania | Lycaon pictus (21690) |