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Lycaon
Taxonomy
Lycaon was named by Brookes (1827). It is extant.
It was assigned to Canina by Gray (1825); to Canina by Wang et al. (2008); and to Canidae by Bourguignat (1875), Kurten (1968), van Gelder (1978), Carroll (1988), Hartstone-Rose et al. (2010), Geraads (2011), Medin et al. (2017), Koufos (2022).
It was assigned to Canina by Gray (1825); to Canina by Wang et al. (2008); and to Canidae by Bourguignat (1875), Kurten (1968), van Gelder (1978), Carroll (1988), Hartstone-Rose et al. (2010), Geraads (2011), Medin et al. (2017), Koufos (2022).
Species
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2003-01-23; modified by L. van den Hoek Ostende on 2013-04-30
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Lycaon Gray p. 339 |
| 1827 | Lycaon Brookes p. 151 |
| 1875 | Lycaon Bourguignat |
| 1968 | Lycaon Kurten p. 112 |
| 1978 | Lycaon van Gelder |
| 1988 | Lycaon Carroll |
| 2008 | Lycaon Wang et al. |
| 2010 | Lycaon Hartstone-Rose et al. |
| 2011 | Lycaon Geraads |
| 2017 | Lycaon Medin et al. p. 29 |
| 2022 | Lycaon Koufos |
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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.
G. Lycaon Brookes 1827
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†Lycaon magnus Ewer and Singer 1956
Lycaon pictus Temminck 1820 [African wild dog]
†Lycaon sekowei Hartstone-Rose et al. 2010
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Calabrian to the top of the Holocene or 1.80000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.774 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.774 Ma
Collections (21 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene | South Africa | L. sp. (22334) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | South Africa (Gauteng) | L. sekowei (190075) L. sp. (230982) | |
| Pleistocene | Morocco | L. pictus (22489) | |
| Pleistocene | Kenya | L. pictus (21963) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa | L. pictus (21695 21929 21931 21956) L. sp. (21825 21920) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | L. pictus (21949) | |
| Calabrian | Algeria | L. magnus (22584) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Morocco | L. magnus (34287 34330) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Israel | L. sp. (230988) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya | L. pictus (21277) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa | L. pictus (115184) | |
| Holocene | Tanzania | L. pictus (21690) | |
| Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | L. pictus (22067 22068) |