Canis mosbachensis
Extinct species of carnivore / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canis mosbachensis is an extinct wolf that once inhabited Europe 600,000—420,000 years ago (Marine isotope stages 15-11, late Cromerian stage to the Holstein interglacial, Middle Pleistocene). The Mosbach wolf was a short-legged carcass feeder adapted for scavenging megafauna on the mammoth steppe.[3] The Mosbach wolf is proposed as the ancestor of the grey wolf Canis lupus[4] but some mammalogists have assigned it as the subspecies Canis lupus mosbachensis.[5]
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Canis mosbachensis | |
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Skull from Würzburg-Schalksberg | |
Life restoration | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Canidae |
Genus: | Canis |
Species: | †C. mosbachensis |
Binomial name | |
†Canis mosbachensis Soergel, 1925[1] | |
Subspecies | |
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