“…Following Crégut-Bonnoure et al (2018), canine proportions differ in both species being the canine index (width/length) 69.9 in M. putorius while in M. eversmanii it is 79.1, thus M. putorius presents proportionally shorter and narrower lower canines. However, we have analyzed canines (Pleistocene, n = 9) and lower second molars (Pleistocene, n = 4; modern, n = 8), which data come from bibliographic sources (Baryshnikov & Alekseeva, 2017;Bourgeois, 2018;Crégut-Bonnoure et al, 2018;Fourvel et al, 2015;Hugueney, 1975;Krajcarz et al, 2015;Marciszak et al, 2017) and the results differ from Crégut-Bonnoure et al (2018; Table 1). When calculating the canine index (width/length), we obtained average values of 71.4 for M. eversmanii and 79.2 in M.putorius.…”