Xenocyon Kretzoi 1938 (canine)

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

View classification

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Belgium (1), Canada (2: Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (2), the Czech Republic (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

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.