Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene 320,000—12,000 years ago
The Goldfuss holotype,[1] Berlin's Natural History Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Family:
Canidae
Genus:
Canis
Species:
C. lupus
Subspecies:
†C. l. spelaeus
Trinomial name
†Canis lupus spelaeus
Goldfuss, 1823[2]
Synonyms[5]
C. l. brevis Kuzmina and Sablin, 1994[3] C. l. maximus Boudadi-Maligne, 2012[4]
The cave wolf (Canis lupus spelaeus) is an extinct glacial mammoth steppe-adapted white wolf that lived during the Middle Pleistocene to the Late Pleistocene. It inhabited Europe, where its remains have been found in many caves. Its habitat included the mammoth steppe grasslands and boreal needle forests.[6] This large wolf was short-legged compared to its body size,[3] yet its leg size is comparable with that of the Arctic wolf C. l. arctos.[6] Mitochondrial DNA analysis shows it to be more closely related to the domestic dog than the modern wolf, indicating possible ancestry.[7][8]
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