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Taxonomy
Canis chama was named by Smith (1833). It is extant.
It was recombined as Vulpes chama by van Gelder (1978), Stuart (1981) and Wang et al. (2008).
It was recombined as Vulpes chama by van Gelder (1978), Stuart (1981) and Wang et al. (2008).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1833 | Canis chama Smith p. 89 |
| 1978 | Vulpes chama van Gelder |
| 1981 | Vulpes chama Stuart p. 8 |
| 2008 | Vulpes chama Wang et al. |
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Vulpes chama Smith 1833 [Cape fox]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58800 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (20 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene | South Africa | Vulpes chama (230224) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | South Africa (Gauteng) | Vulpes chama (183152) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa | Vulpes chama (21695 21828 21929 21931 21956 115191) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa (Orange Free) | Vulpes chama (21867) | |
| Pleistocene | Libya | Vulpes chama (21864) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Egypt | Vulpes chama (21883) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa | Vulpes chama (115184) | |
| Holocene | South Africa (Orange Free) | Vulpes chama (21911 21912 21947) | |
| Holocene | South Africa | Vulpes chama (21862 21896 21940 21946) | |
| Holocene | Egypt | Vulpes chama (21882) |