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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

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/7426/speothos-pacivorus-pleistocene-bush-dog

 

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