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Caninae
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Caninae, whose members are known as canines (), is the only living subfamily within Canidae, alongside the extinct Borophaginae and Hesperocyoninae. They first appeared in North America, during the Oligocene around 35 million years ago, subsequently spreading to Asia and elsewhere in the Old World at the end of the Miocene, some 7 million to 8 million years ago.
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- Taxonomy and lineage
- Phylogenetic relationships
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Caninae, whose members are known as canines (), is the only living subfamily within Canidae, alongside the extinct Borophaginae and Hesperocyoninae. They first appeared in North America, during the Oligocene around 35 million years ago, subsequently spreading to Asia and elsewhere in the Old World at the end of the Miocene, some 7 million to 8 million years ago.
==Taxonomy and lineage==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caninae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.