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Xenocyon africanus
Taxonomy
Canis africanus was named by Pohle (1928). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Olduvai Bed II, which is in a Calabrian fluvial horizon in the Olduvai Formation of Tanzania.
It was recombined as Xenocyon africanus by Rook (1994), Bartolini-Lucenti and Spassov (2022).
It was recombined as Xenocyon africanus by Rook (1994), Bartolini-Lucenti and Spassov (2022).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1928 | Canis africanus Pohle |
| 1946 | Canis atrox Broom |
| 1994 | Xenocyon africanus Rook |
| 2008 | Canis africanus Wang et al. |
| 2011 | Canis africanus Geraads |
| 2022 | Xenocyon africanus Bartolini-Lucenti and Spassov |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: Calabrian or 1.80000 to 0.77400 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Algeria (Northern Algeria) | Canis atrox (197944) | |
| Calabrian | Tanzania | Canis africanus (230987) |