Cuon alpinus europaeus Bourguignat (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Upper Pleistocene in the Cave Apnarjeva jama at Celje

Abstract

The article deals with th description of the lower jaw-bone of the alpine wolf from the cave Apnarjeva jama near Celje (Slovenia), putting forward stratigraphic, faunistic and archeologic data about the findings belonging to the Moustierian complex. The jaw-bone has been metrically and morphologically processed and taxonomically defined as an Upper Pleistocene subspecies Cuon alpinus europaeus Bourguignat. Chronostratigraphic data on european findings of the subspecies Cuon alpinus europaeus are assembled with a special emphasis being laid on the Upper Pleistocene findings in Yugoslavia.