Armbruster's wolf
| Armbruster's wolf Temporal range:
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| Cast of skull, Florida Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | †Aenocyon |
| Species: | †A. armbrusteri
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| Binomial name | |
| †Aenocyon armbrusteri (Gidley, 1913)
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| Range of Armbruster's wolf based on fossil distribution | |
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Armbruster's wolf (Aenocyon armbrusteri) is an extinct species of canine that was endemic to North America and lived during the Early to Middle Pleistocene epoch. It is proposed as the ancestor of the dire wolf, one of the most famous prehistoric carnivores in North America, and likely belongs to the same genus Aenocyon.