Speothos pacivorus Lund, 1839
Pleistocene bush dog
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lund, Peter. W. 1839. Coup-d’oeil sur les espe´ces e´teintes de Mammiferes du Bresil, extrait de quelques memoires presentes a`l’Academie royale des Sciences de Copenhague. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Series 2a, 11: 214-235.
Other references:
Berta, Annalisa. (1984). The Pleistocene Bush Dog Speothos pacivorus (Canidae) from the Lagoa Santa Caves, Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy 65(4): 549-559. [Abstract]
Simpson, George Gaylord. (1984). Mammals and cryptozoology. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 128(1): 1-19. https://www.jstor.org/stable/986487
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