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Vulpes riffautae

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Taxonomy
Vulpes riffautae was named by de Bonis et al. (2007). Its type specimen is Centre National d'Appui à la Recherche, N'Djamena, TM 32-04-78, a partial skull (two mandibular corpi), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Toros-Menalla (TM 32), which is in a Messinian terrestrial horizon in Chad.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Vulpes riffautae de Bonis et al.
2008Vulpes riffautae Wang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
familyCanidae
genusVulpesFrisch 1775
speciesriffautae

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Vulpes riffautae de Bonis et al. 2007
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available