Xenocyon Temporal range: Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene
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Canis (Xenocyon) falconeri skull | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Canidae |
Genus: | Canis |
Subgenus: | †Xenocyon Kretzoi, 1938[1] |
Species | |
![]() | Parts of this article (those related to systematics concerning recent species https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.060) need to be updated. (February 2023) |
Xenocyon ("strange dog") is an extinct group of canids, either considered a distinct genus[2] or a subgenus of Canis. The group includes Canis (Xenocyon) africanus, Canis (Xenocyon) antonii and Canis (Xenocyon) falconeri that gave rise to Canis (Xenocyon) lycanoides.[3] The hypercarnivorous Xenocyon is thought to be closely related and possibly ancestral to modern dhole and the African wild dog,[4]: p149 as well as the insular Sardinian dhole.[5]
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