Canis nehringi

Canis nehringi
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species: C. nehringi
Binomial name
Canis nehringi

Canis nehringi is an extinct species of canid. Canis gezi, a poorly known small wolf from the Ensenadan of South America, appears to have given rise to Canis nehringi, a Lujanian species from Argentina. Betra’s [1](1988) analysis places Canis dirus and Canis nehringi as sister taxa and are the most derived members of the genus Canis in the New World.

References

  1. ^ Berta, A. 1988: Quaternary evolution and biogeography of the large South American Canidae (Mammalia: Carnivora). University of California Publications, Geological Sciences 132, 1–149.