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Canis adoxus

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Taxonomy
Canis adoxus was named by Martin (1971). Its type specimen is Basel Natural History Museum, RSS 45, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Saint-Estève, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial horizon in France.

It was recombined as Eucyon adoxus by Martin (1973), Spassov and Rook (2006) and Wang et al. (2008).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. kronstadtensis, C. multicuspus, C. ocropus, C. orientalis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Canis adoxus Martin
1973Eucyon adoxus Martin
2006Eucyon adoxus Spassov and Rook
2008Eucyon adoxus Wang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
familyCanidae
subfamilyCaninaeGill 1872
genusCanis
speciesadoxus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Canis adoxus Martin 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available