[PDF] Cynotherium malatestai, sp. nov. (Carnivora, Canidae), from the Early Middle Pleistocene Deposits of Grotta Dei Fiori (Sardinia, Western Mediterranean) | Semantic Scholar

Preliminary results of the study of the latest Villafran­ chian early and middle Galerian small sized fossil dogs from several European localities at Mediterranean latitudes and in Israel suggest that at the transition Early-Middle Pleistocene, at least two different phyletic lineages were present, both paralleling wolf morphologies; one in the Mediterranean region, represented by Canis arnensis, the second in north and central Eurasia.