Armbrusters Wolf

Taxobox
name = "Canis armbrusteri"
status = Fossil
fossil_range = Middle Pleistocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Canidae
genus = "Canis"
species = "C. armbrusteri"
binomial = "Canis armbrusteri"
binomial_authority = J. W. Gidley, 1913

"Canis armbrusteri" or Armbrusters Wolf is considered the ancestor of the Dire wolf one of the most recent evolutionary ancestors to the wolf and differs from the Gray wolf and Dire wolf because of a more narrow skull. It is considered to be the closest relative to "Canis falconeri".

"C. armbrusteri" first appeared during the mid-Pleistocene, in North America, and later also spread to South America. It is believed to be the ancestor of the Dire wolf.

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