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Taxonomy
Canis cedazoensis was named by Mooser and Dalquest (1975). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cedazo, which is in an Irvingtonian terrestrial horizon in the Tacubaya Formation of Mexico.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1975 | Canis cedazoensis Mooser and Dalquest |
| 1980 | Canis cedazoensis Kurten and Anderson p. 170 |
| 2008 | Canis cedazoensis Wang et al. |
| 2009 | Canis cedazoensis Tedford et al. p. 123 figs. 45D-E |
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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.
†Canis cedazoensis Mooser and Dalquest 1975
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. H. Tedford et al. 2009 | Canis cedazoensis dif- fers from C. aureus and C. tho ̈oides in M1 anteroposteriorly shorter relative to length of P4 with reduced hypocone and labial cingula; M2 alveoli indicate smaller size tooth relative to M1. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Irvingtonian or 1.80000 to 0.30000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Irvingtonian | Mexico (Aguascalientes) | Canis cedazoensis (type locality: 20283) |