Lycaon (genus)

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Not to be confused with
Canis lupus lycaon
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Lycaon
Temporal range: 2–0 
Ma
↓
Early Pleistocene – present
Two dogs sharing a meal.
African wild dogs
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Subfamily: Caninae
Tribe: Canini
Genus: Lycaon
Brookes, 1827
Species

Lycaon is a genus of canid which includes the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) and the extinct species Lycaon sekowei and Lycaon magnus.

Taxonomy

This

tetradactyl, but has remained hypercarnivorous. Lycaon sekowei is known from the early Pleistocene epoch of South Africa and was less cursorial.[1]

Some researchers consider the extinct Canis

Cuon.[2][3]
: p149 

Other researchers propose that the extinct

Middle Pleistocene of Eurasia and Africa → L. pictus in the Middle–Late Pleistocene and today the extant African descendant.[4]

See also

  • Lycaon of Arcadia
    , a figure from Greek mythology who was transformed into a wolf

References

  1. S2CID 85585759
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  2. S2CID 17083040
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  3. ^ Wang, Xiaoming; Tedford, Richard H.; Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
  4. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2003.06.002
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