Ancient Dogs
The earliest fossil carnivores(dogs) that can be linked with some certainty to canids are
the Eocene Miacids some 55 to 38 million years ago. Are we talking dinosars here. From
the miacids evolved the cat-like (Feloidea) and dog-like (Canoidea) carnivores.
Most important to the ancestry of the dog was the canoid line, leading from the
coyote-sized Mesocyon of the Oligocene (38 to 24 million years ago), this is alot closer
to current time, I remember like it was yesterday, to the fox-like Leptocyon and the
wolf-like Tomarctus that roamed North America some 10 million years ago. From the time
of Tomarctus, dog-like carnivores have expanded throughout the world.[1]
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