<Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Dire wolf Temporal range: Late Pleistocene--early Holocene (125,000--9,000 years ago) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Mounted skeleton, Sternberg Museum of Natural History </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Scientific classification </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Kingdom: </Td> <Td> Animalia </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Phylum: </Td> <Td> Chordata </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Class: </Td> <Td> Mammalia </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Order: </Td> <Td> Carnivora </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Family: </Td> <Td> Canidae </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Genus: </Td> <Td> Canis </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Species: </Td> <Td> † C. dirus </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Binomial name </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Canis dirus Leidy, 1858 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Subspecies </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> Canis dirus dirus Kurten 1984 </Li> <Li> Canis dirus guildayi Kurten 1984 </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Synonyms </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> Canis primaevus Leidy (1854) </Li> <Li> Canis indianensis Leidy (1869) </Li> <Li> Canis mississippiensis Allen (1876) </Li> <Li> Canis ayersi Sellards (1916) </Li> <Li> Aenocyon dirus Merriam (1918) </Li> <Li> Aenocyon dirus nebrascensis Frick (1930) (nomen nudum) </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Dire wolf Temporal range: Late Pleistocene--early Holocene (125,000--9,000 years ago) </Th> </Tr>

How long ago did the dire wolf live