A revision of the fossil Canidae (Mammalia) of north‐western Africa

Geraads, Denis

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01039.x

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“…The fact that the teeth are still smaller in the later site of Sidi Abderrahmane (Geraads, 2011) suggest that the species, which is unknown outside North-Western Africa, decreased in size during the course of the middle Pleistocene, but this evolutionary change, if real, does not significantly alter the main characteristics of this remarkable species.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…These carnivore dispersals do not imply that humans followed similar routes, but at least they show that they existed. Still, it is clear that by the late Calabrian, in the absence of foxes (V. alopecoides/praeglacialis) and mustelids (Mustela, Martes, Meles) of northern type, in the disappearance of hyenas of the Pliocrocuta/Pachycrocuta group and their early replacement by Crocuta, and in the rarity of wolf-like canids (known only at Aïn Hanech; Geraads, 2011), the North African carnivore fauna remains quite distinct from the European one, and much closer to African ones, even though the lynx, Ursus, and Lupulella mohibi point to some isolation from areas further south.…”

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“…Compared to the Plio-Pleistocene fauna of Ahl al Oughlam (Geraads, 1997(Geraads, , 2004(Geraads, , 2008(Geraads, , 2011, perhaps 1.5 m.y. older, the most noticeable absences are those of Pliocrocuta and Chasmaporthetes, which went extinct in the meantime, but also those of Acinonyx, Herpestes, and Nyctereutes, which are not rare at Ahl al Oughlam.…”

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“…It looks sufficiently different from the modern form to warrant species distinction. This species is also present in the middle Pleistocene sites of Casablanca (Geraads, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Remarks: North African representatives of this family have recently been revised (Geraads, 2011), and detailed descriptions need not to be repeated here.…”

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Pleistocene Carnivora (Mammalia) from Tighennif (Ternifine), Algeria

Geraads

2016

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The site of Tighennif (= Ternifine) in Northern Algeria, well-known for its Homo mauritanicus (= Homo rhodesiensis?) remains, and probably dating to the late Calabrian, yielded a large assemblage of terrestrial carnivores. Some are identical or probably identical with extant species: Crocuta crocuta and Hyaena hyaena (Hyaenidae), Felis silvestris (Felidae), Mellivora capensis and Poecilictis cf. libyca (Mustelidae), and Vulpes cf. rueppelli (Canidae). In addition, among felids there is an unidentified leopard-like form; a smaller, more common species assigned to Lynx sp. (a genus quite rare in Africa) but which is certainly different from modern forms, an Homotherium that seems to be the last occurrence of the machairodonts in Africa, and a Panthera aff. leo, which is unfortunately too poorly known to be named. Rare bears do not display all derived features of later North African U. bibersoni. Among canids, the Nyctereutes-like jackal Lupulella mohibi is an endemic NorthAfrican form known until the late middle Pleistocene, and the hunting dog Lycaon magnus is also clearly distinct from the modern species. A single new species is described, Enhydrictis hoffstetteri, a large, otter-like member of the Mustelidae, of a genus that was previously unknown from Africa, and certainly testifies to North-South dispersal across the Mediterranean at some time during the early Pleistocene.

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confidence: 97%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It looks sufficiently different from the modern form to warrant species distinction. This species is also present in the middle Pleistocene sites of Casablanca (Geraads, 2011).…”

Section: Remarksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Remarks: North African representatives of this family have recently been revised (Geraads, 2011), and detailed descriptions need not to be repeated here.…”

Section: Family Canidae Fischer De Waldheim 1817mentioning

confidence: 99%

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