Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Full reference: L. de Bonis, S. Peigné, A. Likius, H. Taïsso Mackaye, P. Vignaud and M. Brunet. 2007. The oldest African fox (Vulpes riffautae n. sp., Canidae, Carnivora) recovered in late Miocene deposits of the Djurab desert, Chad. Naturwissenschaften 94:575-580

Belongs to Vulpes according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2008

See also de Bonis et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Vulpes alopecoides, Vulpes angustidens, Vulpes beihaiensis, Vulpes bengalensis, Vulpes cana, Vulpes chama, Vulpes chikushanensis, Vulpes corsac, Vulpes ferrilata, Vulpes flavescens, Vulpes galaticus, Vulpes griffithi, Vulpes hassani, Vulpes japonica, Vulpes karagan, Vulpes kernensis, Vulpes lagopus, Vulpes macrotis, Vulpes mathisoni, Vulpes montana, Vulpes niloticus, Vulpes odessana, Vulpes pallida, Vulpes pensylvanicus, Vulpes praecorsac, Vulpes praeglacialis, Vulpes pusilla, Vulpes rooki, Vulpes rueppellii, Vulpes sinensis, Vulpes skinneri, Vulpes stenognathus, Vulpes velox, Vulpes vulgaris, Vulpes vulpes, Vulpes zerda, Fennecus pallidus, Fennecus caama, Fennecus zaarensis, Fennecus zerda, Alopex praeglacialis

Type specimen: Centre National d'Appui à la Recherche, N'Djamena, TM 32-04-78, a partial skull (two mandibular corpi). Its type locality is Toros-Menalla (TM 32), which is in a Messinian terrestrial horizon in Chad.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Toros-Menalla (TM 32)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.