Name - Borophaginae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:157825 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Borophaginae Simpson 1945

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Subfamily

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• The evolution of the brain in Canidae (Mammalia: Carnivora).
• Do convergent ecomorphs evolve through convergent morphological pathways? Cranial shape evolution in fossil hyaenids and borophagine canids (Carnivora, Mammalia).
• Iterative adaptive radiations of fossil canids show no evidence for diversity-dependent trait evolution.
• A Borophagine canid (Carnivora: Canidae: Borophaginae) from the middle Miocene Chesapeake Group of eastern North America.
• Iterative evolution of large-bodied hypercarnivory in canids benefits species but not clades.

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