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Can anyone explain this fellow?
"Merriam, J. C. 1912. The fauna of Rancho La Brea: Part 2: Canidae. [TYPE: Canis milleri sp. nov.; Canis ochropus orcutti ssp. nov.]. Memoirs of the University of California, 1 (2), 217-272."
We have a pix of his mandible here that could be uploaded: http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?enlarge=0000+0000+1214+0091
and Meacham 2012 makes an intriguing comment "We analyzed the SoCal coyote subspecies (C. l. ochropus; n = 17) separately from all other subspecies because this group likely represents the descendants of the Pleistocene coyote populations." which I assume means the Californian-region Pleistocene populations.
Does anyone know if C.o.o is the ancestor of C.l.o, and if so did it exist in the Late Pleistocene or Holocene?
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Pleistocene coyote's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡10:46, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]