Canis armbrusteri Gidley 1913 (canine)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Full reference: J. W. Gidley. 1913. Preliminary report on a recently discovered Pleistocene cave deposit near Cumberland, Maryland. Proceedings of The United States National Museum 46:93-102

Belongs to Canis according to R. H. Tedford et al. 2009

See also Albright et al. 2019, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Martin 1974, Miller 1976, Nowak 1979 and Wang et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Canis (Epicyon), Canis accitanus, Canis adoxus, Canis apolloniensis, Canis arnensis, Canis aureus, Canis borjgali, Canis cana, Canis cedazoensis, Canis ceylonicus, Canis chihliensis, Canis cipio, Canis culpaeus, Canis dingo, Canis edwardii, Canis etruscus, Canis familiaris, Canis feneus, Canis geismarianus, Canis gezi, Canis hewitti, Canis incertus, Canis latidentatus, Canis latrans, Canis lepophagus, Canis longdanensis, Canis lupaster, Canis lupus, Canis lydekkeri, Canis megamastoides, Canis michauxi, Canis monticinensis, Canis mosbachensis, Canis osorum, Canis othmanii, Canis palaeoplatensis, Canis palmidens, Canis proplatensis, Canis rufus, Canis sechurae, Canis senezensis, Canis simensis, Canis tarijensis, Canis teilhardi, Canis thooides, Canis troglodytes, Canis variabilis, Canis vetulus, Nyctereutes terblanchei

Type specimen: USNM 7662, a mandible. Its type locality is Cumberland Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Maryland.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (18: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia collections)

Total: 18 collections including 19 occurrences

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