Lycaon Brookes 1827 (canid)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Parent taxon: Canidae according to D. Geraads 2011

See also Bourguignat 1875, Carroll 1988, Gray 1825, Hartstone-Rose et al. 2010, Koufos 2022, Kurten 1968, Medin et al. 2017, van Gelder 1978 and Wang et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Amphicyon angustidens, Borophaginae, Caninae, Chailicyon, Cubacyon, Cuon, Cynotherium, Dysodus, Hesperocyoninae, Hydrocyon, Icticyon, Lupulella, Lupus, Lycorus, Otocyoninae, Palaeocyon, Plesiocyon, Schaeffia, Simenia, Synagodus, Thous, Vulpes

Subtaxa: Lycaon magnus Lycaon pictus Lycaon sekowei

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Israel (1), Kenya (2), Morocco (3), South Africa (10), Tanzania (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)

Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence

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