Fossil foxes, genus Vulpes, are known since the Late Miocene of North America and the Old
World but their record is utterly scarce, fragmentary, and referred to a number of different …

In the complex scenario of Plio–Pleistocene mammalian faunal turnovers, recent research
on canids has revealed an increasingly higher number of species than previously thought. In …

We undertake a comparative mammalian zoogeographic analysis with the aim of revealing
the extent to which the Dmanisi Early Pleistocene large mammal assemblage resembles, at …

The “Wolf event” is a prominent concept in large mammal biochronology of western Europe.
It was defined in the 1980s as an intercontinental “dispersal event”, best represented by the …

This study investigates the community structure, dynamics and evolution of the guilds of
large carnivorans during the Pleistocene of Europe. Emphasis is given to important …

During the last field campaigns in the mammal fossiliferous site Apollonia 1 (Macedonia,
Greece), new carnivoran material has been discovered. The new collection added two new …

The remains of 12 canid species that date back ca. 4.9 myr have been found at 116
paleontological localities. Among these localities, eight are dated to the Pliocene age, 12 …

The carnivore guild of the Early Pleistocene site of Dmanisi is among the most diverse of the
Early Pleistocene of the entire Old World. It includes 14 carnivoran taxa: Homotherium …

Abstract Karnezeika is an Early Pleistocene locality in the Peloponnese, South Greece.
More than 3000 specimens have been unearthed and studied, revealing the presence of a …

Canis mosbachensis is a widely distributed species from the Early to Middle Pleistocene in
Europe. In Eastern Asia, Canis variabilis was supposed to be a local subspecies of C …