Dusicyon
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Dusicyon is an extinct genus of South American canids.
TaxonomyEdit
The type species is Dusicyon australis, the Falkland Islands wolf. In 1914, Oldfield Thomas established this genus, in which he included the culpeo and other South American foxes. These other canids were removed to Lycalopex by Langguth in 1975.<ref name="msw3b">Template:MSW3 Carnivora</ref>
ExtinctionsEdit
Dusicyon avus, widely distributed in the late Pleistocene from Uruguay through Buenos Aires Province to southernmost Chile, is the closest known relative of the Falkland Islands wolf; the two lineages split only about 16,000 years ago.<ref name="cooper">Template:Cite journal</ref> It died out in the late Holocene, earlier estimates suggested about 2,980 years ago on the island of Tierra del Fuego and almost 1,700 years ago in the continent.<ref>Constraining the time of extinction of the South American fox Dusicyon avus (Carnivora, Canidae) during the late Holocene. Francisco Prevosti, Fernando Santiago, Luciano Prates, Mónica Salemme, and Fabiana Martin. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2010-577-1, 2010. EGU General Assembly 2010 http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/EGU2010-577-1.pdf</ref> More recent research confirms much later extinction dates, with the latest confirmed records in the Pampean Region being 700 BP (1232–1397 AD) and southernmost Patagonia at 400 years BP (1454–1626 AD).<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
Template:Sister project Template:Sister project (Lycalopex mentioned as Dusicyon) THE DANGEROUS WILD ANIMALS ACT 1976 (MODIFICATION) (NO.2) ORDER 2007. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2465/schedule/made accessed 26 March 2014.
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