Canis mosbachensis
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. The Mosbach wolf is proposed as the ancestor of the grey wolf Canis lupus but some mammalogists have assigned it as the subspecies Canis lupus mosbachensis.
| Canis mosbachensis Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Subspecies | |
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Canis mosbachensis variabilis Pei, 1934 | |
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