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 …

Equus suessebornensis is one of the most intriguing species of the Early and Middle
Pleistocene Eurasian Equus. Although it was described from the Middle Pleistocene site of …

Here, we describe a partial cranium of a large canid dated at 406.5±2.4 ka from the Middle
Pleistocene of Ponte Galeria (Rome, Italy). The sample represents one of the few Middle …

Identifying isolated teeth of fossil selachians only based on qualitative characters is
sometimes hindered by similarity in their morphology, resulting often in heated taxonomic …

Phylogenetic relationships among 36 Recent and 42 extinct species of the Caninae
(Canidae) were analysed, based on 360 morphological, developmental, ecological …

Unlike their medium-sized relatives of the genus Canis, whose arrival is dated around 3 Ma,
the appearance in western Europe of large-sized hypercarnivorous canids took place at the …

Abstract The Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition (EMPT)(ca. 1.4–0.4 Ma) represents a
fundamental transformation in the Earth's climate state, starting at 1.4 Ma with a progressive …

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 …

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 …

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 …