Phylum Chordata Genus Vulpes Rank Species | ||
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Similar Vulpes skinneri, Enhydrocyon, Osbornodon | ||
Vulpes riffautae is an extinct species of fox from the late Miocene of Chad (approximately 7 ma). Fossils of V. riffautae potentially represent the earliest record of the dog family, Canidae, in the Old World. V. riffautae was intermediate in size between Rüppell's fox (Vulpes rueppellii) and the fennec fox (V. zerda).
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