Caninae
| Canines Temporal range: early Miocene - Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Family: | Canidae |
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Caninae G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 |
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The Caninae are a subfamily of the family Canidae and include all living canids and their most recent fossil relatives. The extinct and more basal canids are placed in the Canidae subfamilies Hesperocyoninae and Borophaginae. Their fossils have been found in Lower Oligocene North America, and they did not spread to Asia until the end of the Miocene. Many extinct species of Caninae were endemic to North America, living from 34 million to 11,000 years ago.
"Derived characteristics that distinguish the Caninae from other canids include small, simple, well-spaced premolars, a humerus without an entepicondylar foramen, and a metatarsal 1 which is reduced to a proximal rudiment."
Based on genetic assumptions, the present-day, more-basal canids include:
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