Renan Maestri

Sep 1, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Renan Maestri |Thijs Janzen |Rampal Etienne

AbstractThe Canidae are an ecologically important group of dog-like carnivores that arose in North America and spread across the planet around 10 million years ago. The current distribution patterns of species, coupled with their phylogenetic structure, suggest that Canidae diversification may have occurred at varying rates across different biogeographic areas. However, such extant-only analyses undervalued the rich fossil history of the group because of a limitation in methods development.