Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Alternative spelling: Canis (Xenocyon)
Parent taxon: Canini according to Q. Jiangzuo et al. 2022
See also Bartolini-Lucenti and Spassov 2022, Rook 1994, Tedford et al. 2009 and Wang et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Canina, Cerdocyonina, Eucyon, Sinicuon
Subtaxa: Xenocyon africanus Xenocyon antonii Xenocyon brevicephalus Xenocyon dubius Xenocyon falconeri Xenocyon lycaonoides Xenocyon texanus
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Belgium (1), Canada (2: Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (2), Czechia (2), France (6), Georgia (2), Germany (3), Greece (2), Israel (1), Italy (7), Mongolia (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (4), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1)
• Pliocene of Romania (1)
Total: 43 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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