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Taxonomy
Vulpes kernensis was named by Tedford et al. (2009). Its type specimen is LACM 55215, a maxilla, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kern River, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Kern River Formation of California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2009 | Vulpes kernensis Tedford et al. p. 48 figs. 23A–D; appendix 3 |
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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.
†Vulpes kernensis Tedford et al. 2009
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. H. Tedford et al. 2009 | Differs from V. stenognathus in approximately 20%–25% smaller dentition, P3 and p4 anteroposteriorly shorter, and P4 protocone smaller; differs from V. macrotis and V. velox in P3 and p4 anteroposteriorly shorter and taller crowned relative to length, p4 weaker posterior cusplet, and M1 para- cone taller crowned relative to height of metacone. As in living species, the M1 parastyle is very reduced and the prepara- crista is not united with parastyle, and the m1 entoconid has a transverse cristid passing to the base of the hyperconid. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: Clarendonian or 12.50000 to 9.40000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Clarendonian | USA (California) | Vulpes kernensis (type locality: 19393) |