| Canines Temporal range: early Miocene - Recent | |
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| File:Eucyon davisi.JPG | |
| Eucyon davisi fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | Caninae G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 |
| Genera[1][2][3][4] | |
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The Caninae are the only living subfamily of Canidae. Many extinct species of Caninae were endemic to North America, living from 34 Mya—11,000 years ago.[5] Some members of the endemic North American canines survived to the present time. This subfamily was recently revised by Tedford, Wang, and Taylor (2009).[6] More basal canids are placed in the extinct subfamilies Hesperocyoninae and Borophaginae.
Present-day basal Caninae include:
- Genus Otocyon (probably a vulpine close to Urocyon)
- Bat-eared fox, Otocyon megalotis
- Genus Nyctereutes
- Raccoon dog, Nyctereutes procyonoides
- Genus Cuon
- Dhole, Cuon alpinus
References[]
- ^ McKenna, M. C, and S. K. Bell (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11012-X.
- ^ Lyras G.A., Van der Geer A.E., Dermitzakis M., De Vos J. (2006) Cynotherium sardous, an insular canid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the Pleistocene of Sardinia (Italy), and its origin. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 26, No. 3 pp. 735–745
- ^ Template:MSW3 Wozencraft
- ^ Sotnikova, M. (2006). "A new canid Nurocyon chonokhariensis gen. et sp. nov.(Canini, Canidae, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Mongolia" (PDF). Courier-Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg. 256: 11. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ Paleobiology Database: Caninae Basic info.
- ^ Tedford, Richard; Xiaoming Wang; Beryl E. Taylor (2009). "Phylogenetic systematics of the North American fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 325: 1–218. doi:10.1206/574.1.
Additional reading[]
- Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford, Mauricio Antón, Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History, New York : Columbia University Press, 2008; ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3
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