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Taxonomy
Canis megamastoides was named by Pomel (1842). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Perrier-Etouaires, which is in the MN 16 of horizon France.
It was synonymized subjectively with Canis mitzopouli by Sickenberg (1968); it was recombined as Nyctereutes megamastoides by Viret et al. (1954), Kurten (1968), Monguillon et al. (2004), Wang et al. (2008) and Koufos (2022).
It was synonymized subjectively with Canis mitzopouli by Sickenberg (1968); it was recombined as Nyctereutes megamastoides by Viret et al. (1954), Kurten (1968), Monguillon et al. (2004), Wang et al. (2008) and Koufos (2022).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1842 | Canis megamastoides Pomel |
| 1859 | Canis borbonicus Gervais |
| 1953 | Canis mitzopouli Paraskevaidis |
| 1954 | Nyctereutes megamastoides Viret et al. |
| 1968 | Nyctereutes megamastoides Kurten p. 117 |
| 2004 | Nyctereutes megamastoides Monguillon et al. |
| 2008 | Nyctereutes megamastoides Wang et al. |
| 2022 | Nyctereutes megamastoides 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.
†Canis megamastoides Pomel 1842
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||