Nyctereutes lockwoodi, n. sp., a New canid (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the middle pliocene of Dikika, lower awash, Ethiopia

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 981-987

  Geraads, Denis ^a   Alemseged, Zeresenay ^b   Bobe, René ^c   Reed, Denné ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; CLADISTICS; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL RECORD; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PALEONTOLOGY; PLIOCENE; TAXONOMY;

AWASH BASIN; DIKIKA; ETHIOPIA;

CANIDAE; CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA; NYCTEREUTES;

EID: 77953775567     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724631003758326     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Alemseged, Z., J. G. Wynn, W. H. Kimbel, D. Reed, D. Geraads, and R. Bobe. 2005. A new hominin from the basal member of the Hadar Formation, Dikika, Ethiopia, and its geological context. Journal of Human Evolution 49:499-514.
2. Alemseged, Z., F. Spoor, W. H. Kimbel, R. Bobe, D. Geraads, D. Reed, and J. G. Wynn. 2006. A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443:296-301.
3. Bardeleben, C., R. L. Moore, and R. K. Wayne. 2005. A molecular phylogeny of the Canidae based on six nuclear loci. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37:815-831.
4. Barry, J. C. 1987. Large carnivores (Canidae, Hyaenidae, Felidae) from Laetoli; pp. 235-258 in M. D. Leakey and J. M. Harris (eds.), Laetoli, APliocene site in Northern Tanzania. Clarendon Press, Oxford, U.K.
5. Boule, M. 1889. Le Canis megamastoides du Plioc ̀ene moyen de Perrier (Puy-de-Dôme). Bulletin de la Sociét gologique de France 17:321-330.
6. Bowdich, T. E. 1821. An Analysis of the Natural Classification of Mammalia. Smith, Paris, 115 pp.
7. Broom, R. 1948. Some South African Pliocene and Pleistocene Mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 21:1-38.
8. Campisano, C. J. 2007. Tephrostratigraphy and Hominin Paleoenvironments of the Hadar Formation, Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 600 pp.
9. Czyzewska, T. 1969. Nyctereutes sinensis Schlosser (Canidae, Mammalia) from the Pliocene breccia in Weze (Poland). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 14:441-450.
10. Depéret, C. 1890. Les animaux plioc ̀enes du Roussillon. Mmoires de la Sociét gologique de France 3: 5-195.
11. Eisenmann, V., and B. van der Geer. 1999. The Cynotherium from Corbeddu (Sardinia): comparative biometry with extant and fossil canids. Deinsea 7:146-168.
12. Ewer, R. F. 1956. The fossil Carnivores of the Transvaal caves: Canidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 126:97-119.
13. Ficcarelli, G., D. Torre, and A. Turner. 1984. First evidence for a species of raccoon dog, Nyctereutes Temminck, 1838, in South African Plio-Pleistocene deposits. Bollettino della Societ ̀a Paleontologica Italiana 23:125-130.
14. Garća N. 2008 New Eucyon remains from the Pliocene Aramis Member (Sagantole Formation), Middle Awash valley (Ethiopia). Comptes Rendus Palevol 7: 583-590.
15. Gaspard, M. 1964. La rgion de l'angle mandibulaire chez les Canidae. Mammalia 28:249-329.
16. Geraads, D. 1997. Carnivores du Plioc ̀ene terminal de Ahl al Oughlam (Casablanca, Maroc). Geobios 30:127-164.
17. Geraads, D. 2008. Plio-Pleistocene Carnivora of Northwestern Africa: a short review. Comptes rendus Palevol 7:591-599.
18. Geraads D., Z. Alemseged, D. Reed, J. G. Wynn, and D. C. Roman. 2004. The Pleistocene fauna (other than Primates) from Asbole, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia, and its environmental and biochronological implications. Gobios 37:697-718.
19. Ginsburg, L. 1998. Le gisement de vert brŝ plioc ̀enes de C̈alta, Ankara, Turquie. 5. Carnivores. Geodiversitas 20:379-396.
20. Gottelli, D., C. Sillero-Zubiri, G. D. Applebaum, M. S. Roy, D. J. Girman, J. Garća-Moreno, E. A. Ostrander, and R. K. Wayne. 1994. Molecular genetics of the most endangered canid: the Ethiopian wolf Canis simensis. Molecular Ecology Notes 3:301-312.
21. Gray, J. E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository 15:296-310.
22. Howell, F. C., and N. Garća. 2007. Carnivora (Mammalia) from Lemudong'o (Late Miocene: Narok District, Kenya). Kirtlandia 56:121-139.
23. Kimbel, W. H. 2009. Obituary: Charles Lockwood (1970-2008). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 139:279-280.
24. Kostopoulos, D. S., and S. Sen. 1999. Late Pliocene (Villafranchian) mammals from Sarikol Tepe, Ankara, Turkey. Mitteilungen der Bayerische Staatssammlung für Palontologie und historische Geologie 39:165-202.
25. Koufos, G. D. 1993. Late Pliocene carnivores from western Macedonia (Greece). Palontologische Zeitschrift 67:357-376.
26. Koufos, G. D. 1997. The canids Eucyon and Nyctereutes from the Ruscinian of Macedonia, Greece. Paleontologia i Evoluci 30-31: 39-48.
27. Kurtén, B., and M. Crusafont Pairö. 1977. Villafranchian Carnivores (Mammalia) from La Puebla de Valverde (Teruel, Spain). Commentationes Biologicae 85:1-39.
28. Lindblad-Toh, K., C. M. Wade, T. S. Mikkelsen, E. K. Karlsson, D. B. Jaffe, M. Kamal, M. Clamp, J. L. Chang, E. J. Kulbokas III, M. C. Zody, E. Mauceli, X. Xie, M. Breen, R. K. Wayne, E. A. Ostrander, C. P. Ponting, F. Galibert, D. R. Smith, P. J. deJong, E. Kirkness, P. Alvarez, T. Biagi, W. Brockman, J. Butler, C. W. Chin, A. Cook, J. Cuff, M. J. Daly, D. DeCaprio, S. Gnerre, M. Grabherr, M. Kellis, M. Kleber, C. Bardeleben, L. Goodstadt, A. Heger, C. Hitte, L. Kim, K. P. Koepfli, H. G. Parker, J. P. Pollinger, S. M. J. Searle, N. B. Sutter, R. Thomas, C. Webber, BIGSP, and E. S. Lander. 2005. Genome sequence, comparative analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog. Nature 438:803-819.
29. Martin, R. 1973. Trois nouvelles esp̀eces de Caninae (Canidae, Carnivora) des gisements plio-villafranchiens d'Europe. Documents des Laboratoires de Gologie de la Facult des Sciences de Lyon. Notes et Mmoires 57:87-96.
30. Monguillon, A., N. Spassov, A. Argant, K. Kauhala, and S. Viranta. 2004. Nyctereutes vulpinus comb. et stat. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae) du Plioc ̀ene terminal de Saint-Vallier (Drôme, France). Geobios 37:S183-S188.
31. Morales, J., M. Pickford, and D. Soria. 2005. Carnivores from the late Miocene and basal Pliocene of the Tugen Hills, Kenya. Revista de la Sociedad Geologica de Espa ña 18:39-61.
32. Pei, W.-C. 1934. On the Carnivora from Locality 1 of Choukoutien. Palaeontologia Sinica 8:1-211.
33. Petter, G. 1973. Carnivores pl éistoc ̀enes du ravin d'Olduvai (Tanzanie). Fossil Vertebrates of Africa 3:43-100.
34. Rook, L. 1992. Canis monticinensis, sp. nov., a new Canidae (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the late Messinian of Italy. Bollettino della Societ̀a Paleontologica Italiana 31:151-156.
35. Rook, L., and M. L. Azzaroli-Puccetti. 1996. Remarks on the skull morphology of the endangered Ethiopian jackal, Canis simensis Ruppell 1838. Rendiconti Fisiocritici Accademia Lincei 7:277-302.
36. Rook, L., G. Ficcarelli, and D. Torre. 1991. Messinian carnivores from Italy. Bollettino della Societ̀a Paleontologica Italiana 30:7-22.
37. Soria, D., and E. Aguirre. 1976. El canido de Layna: revisi n de los Nyctereutes fosiles. Trabajos sobre Neogeno-Cuaternario 5:83-115.
38. Spassov, N., and L. Rook. 2006. Eucyon marinae sp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora), a new canid species from the Pliocene of Mongolia, with a review of forms referable to the genus. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 112:77-94.
39. Tedford, R. H., and Z. Qiu. 1991. Pliocene Nyctereutes (Carnivora, Canidae) from Yushe, Shanxi, with comments on Chinese fossil racoon-dogs. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 29:179-198.
40. Tedford, R. H., and Z. Qiu. 1996. A new canid genus from the Pliocene of Yushe, Shanxi Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 34:27-40.
41. Tedford, R. H., B. E. Taylor, and X. Wang. 1995. Phylogeny of the Caninae (Carnivora, Canidae): the living taxa. American Museum Novitates 3146:1-37.
42. Teilhard de Chardin, P., and J. Piveteau. 1930. Les mammif̀eres fossiles de Nihowan (Chine). Annales de Palontologie 19:1-134.
43. Viret, J. 1954. Le loess ̀a bancs durcis de Saint-Vallier (Drome) et sa faune de mammif̀eres villafranchiens. Nouvelles Archives du Musum d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon 4:1-200.
44. Wang, Xiaoming, R. H. Tedford, B. van Valkenburgh, and R. K. Wayne. 2004. Phylogeny, classification, and evolutionary ecology of the Canidae; pp. 8-20 in C. Sillero-Zubiri, M. Hoffmann, and D. W. MacDonald (eds.), Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group. The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.
45. Werdelin, L., and M. E. Lewis. 2000. Carnivora from the South Turkwell hominid site, Northern Kenya. Journal of Paleontology 74:1173-1180.
46. Werdelin, L., and M. E. Lewis. 2005. Plio-Pleistocene Carnivora of eastern Africa: species richness and turnover patterns. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144:121-144.
47. Wynn, J. G., Z. Alemseged, R. Bobe, D. Geraads, D. Reed, and D. C. Roman. 2006. Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443:332-336.
48. Wynn, J. G., D. C. Roman, Z. Alemseged, D. Reed, D. Geraads, and S. Munro. 2008. Stratigraphy, depositional environments and basin structure of the Hadar and Busidima formations at Dikika, Ethiopia. Geological Society of America Special paper 446: 87-118.
49. Zrzavỳ , J., and V. Ricakova. 2004. Phylogeny of Recent Canidae (Mammalia, Carnivora): relative reliability and utility of morphological and molecular datasets. Zoologica Scripta 33:311-333.