| Canines Fossil range: early Miocene - Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | Caninae G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 |
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Caninae is the subfamily of Canidae. Many extinct Caninae are endemic to North America living from 26.3 Ma—11,000 years ago. [5]
One of their closest fossil relatives is the Sardinian Dhole. More basal canids are placed in the extinct subfamilies Hesperocyoninae and Borophaginae.
References
- ^ McKenna, M. C, and S. K. Bell (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. ISBN 023111012X.
- ^ 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
- ^ Wozencraft, W. C. (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds). ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd edition ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14000696.
- ^ Sotnikova, M. (2006). "A new canid Nurocyon chonokhariensis gen. et sp. nov.(Canini, Canidae, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Mongolia". COURIER-FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT SENCKENBERG 256: 11. http://quarter.ginras.ru/personal/sotnikova/docs/sotnikova2006b.pdf. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ Paleobiology Database: Caninae Basic info.
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