| Lycaon sekowei | |
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| Fossil ofLycaon sekowei, a possible ancestor of the African wild dog | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Lycaon |
| Species: | †L. sekowei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Lycaon sekowei Hartstone-Rose et al., 2010 | |
Lycaon sekowei is anextinctcanid species fromsouthernAfrica that lived during the earlyPleistocene epoch, dating from 2 to 1 million years ago.[1][2]
Hartstone-Rose and colleagues claimed thatL. sekowei was ahypercarnivore just like the modernAfrican wild dog (L. pictus), though its front paws were not as specialized for running. They also proposed thatL. sekowei was the ancestor of the wild-dog lineage based on dental morphology similar to that ofL. pictus and the EuropeanLycaon-like canids.[2] In 2013, however, Madurell-Malapeira and colleagues considered the hypothesis that the genusLycaon may have originated from Eurasia and dispersed into Africa by 2 million years ago would be more likely, given the substantial variability of dental characters and the relatively scarce African record ofLycaon-like canids.[3]
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