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Taxonomy
Canis alpinus was named by Pallas (1811). It is extant.
It was recombined as Cuon alpinus by Bourguignat (1875), Boule and De Villeneuve (1927), Kurten (1968), van Gelder (1978), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Wang et al. (2008), Tedford et al. (2009) and Mecozzi et al. (2020).
It was recombined as Cuon alpinus by Bourguignat (1875), Boule and De Villeneuve (1927), Kurten (1968), van Gelder (1978), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Wang et al. (2008), Tedford et al. (2009) and Mecozzi et al. (2020).
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1811 | Canis alpinus Pallas |
| 1875 | Cuon alpinus Bourguignat |
| 1927 | Cuon alpinus Boule and De Villeneuve p. 51 figs. Pls 8-11 |
| 1968 | Cuon alpinus Kurten p. 112 |
| 1978 | Cuon alpinus van Gelder |
| 1980 | Cuon alpinus Kurten and Anderson p. 172 |
| 2008 | Cuon alpinus Wang et al. |
| 2009 | Cuon alpinus Tedford et al. p. 157 figs. 59A–C; appendix 3 |
| 2020 | Cuon alpinus Mecozzi et al. |
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Cuon alpinus Pallas 1811 [dhole]
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†Cuon alpinus europaeus Bourguignat 1875
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Portugal (Évora) | Cuon europaeus (231266) | |
| Pleistocene | China (Shaanxi) | Cuon alpinus (37203) | |
| Pleistocene | India | Cuon alpinus (238021) | |
| Pleistocene | France (Alpes-Maritimes) | Cuon europaeus (231264) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Laos (Hua Pan) | Cuon alpinus (235746) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Germany (Baden-Wuerttemberg) | Cuon alpinus (50259) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mexico (Nuevo Leon) | Cuon alpinus (71345) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Georgia | Cuon alpinus (56735) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Italy | Cuon alpinus (194932) |