Canis spelaeus

Because of its find of giant deer, the fauna of the Megyefai (presently Bukkosd) shaft, which contains no archaeological remains, can also be allocated here according to Kretzoi (1942) the cave wolf (Canis spelaeus) was dominant and the mammoth was common, but the cave bear was absent. 

Lepus timidus L.—18 Canis spelaeus Goldfuss—1 Vulpes vulpes (L.)—5 Ursus arctos L.—1 Ursus spelaeus Ros.-Heinroth—306 Sus scrofa L.—1 Cervus elaphus L.—2 Rangifer tarandus (L.)—2 Capra ibex L.—14... 

The wolf find is interesting in that the praemolar of the maxilla occupies a somewhat intermediate position between Canis mosbachensis and C. lupus spelaeus, although tending to the latter form (Janossy, 1969a) (Fig. 26). 

Fig. 26. A characteristic example of statistical variation between species of the Middle and Upper Pleistocene a bivariate scatter plot of the length (vertical axis) and breadth (horizontal axis) of the third premolar of various wolf species. 1. Canis mosbachensis, Gombaszbg 2. Cam s lupus spelaeus, Hungary, Czechoslovakia 3. Canis lupus ssp., Uppony 4. C. lupus ssp., Lunel-Viel, France 5. C. lupus ssp., Heppenloch, FRG.

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