Named By: | J. W. Gidley in 1913 |
Time Period: | Middle Pleistocene-Late Pleistocene |
Location: | Throughout the USA |
Size: | Average 1.5 meters long |
Diet: | unavailable |
Fossil(s): | Numerous individuals are known |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Carnivora | Canidae | Canis | |
Armbruster's wolf (Canis armbrusteri) is an extinct species of the genus Canis that was endemic to North America and lived during the Irvingtonian stage of the Pleistocene epoch (1.8 Mya--300,000 years ago). It is notable because it is proposed as the ancestor of one of the most famous prehistoric carnivores in North America, the dire wolf (Canis dirus).