Canis volgensis Pawlowa, 1931 (1930?)
Volga dog
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c. 100 AD (Late Pleistocene?)
Distribution
Russia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pavlowa*, M. V. (1931). Mammifères posttertiaires trouvés sur les bords du Volga près de Senguiley, et quelques formes provenant d’autres localités. Ann. Soc. Pal. Russie 9: 1-42. [published in 1930?]
* Pavlowa, Pawlowa or Pawlow?
Other references:
Bendukidze, Oleg G. (1997). The Late Pleistocene primitive dog (Canis volgensis) and goat (Capra dzudzuana) of the Western Transcaucasia: Old world hunters and gatherers. Anthropozoologica Y. 25: 285-286
Vereshchagin, N. K. and Baryshnikov, G. F. (1984). Quarternary Mammals Extinctions in Northern Eurasia, pp. 483-516. In: Martin, P. S. and Klein, R. G. (eds.). Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric Revolution. Tuscon, Arizona: University of Arizona Press.