| Vulpes skinneri Temporal range: Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Vulpes |
| Species: | †V. skinneri
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| †Vulpes skinneri Adam Hartstone-Rose et al., 2013[1]
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Vulpes skinneri is a species of extinct fox in the genus Vulpes[1] from the early Pleistocene, identified based on fossil remains dated to about 2 million years ago.[2] The species is known from a single partial skeleton discovered in the Malapa Fossil Site at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa and is associated with the fossil hominin remains of Australopithecus sediba.[3] The fossils have been dated to between 1.977 and 1.980 million years ago.[2] Hartstone-Rose and colleagues described the remains as a newly discovered species of fox, which they named skinneri after the African mammalogist John Skinner.[1]
- ^ a b c Hartstone-Rose, A; Kuhn, B. F.; Nalla, S.; Werdelin, L.; Berger, L. R. (2013). "A new species of fox from the "Australopithecus sediba" type locality, Malapa, South Africa". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 68 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1080/0035919X.2012.748698. S2CID 84695745.
- ^ a b Dirks, P. H. G. M.; Kibii, J. M.; Kuhn, B. F.; Steininger, C.; Churchill, S. E.; Kramers, J. D.; Pickering, R.; Farber, D. L.; et al. (2010). "Geological Setting and Age of Australopithecus sediba from Southern Africa" (PDF). Science. 328 (5975): 205–208. Bibcode:2010Sci...328..205D. doi:10.1126/science.1184950. PMID 20378812. S2CID 206524717.
- ^ Berger, L. R.; de Ruiter, D. J.; Churchill, S. E.; Schmid, P.; Carlson, K. J.; Dirks, P. H. G. M.; Kibii, J. M. (2010). "Australopithecus sediba: a new species of Homo-like australopith from South Africa". Science. 328 (5975): 195–204. Bibcode:2010Sci...328..195B. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.729.7802. doi:10.1126/science.1184944. PMID 20378811. S2CID 14209370.