Six nuclear and mitochondrial loci across 76 living species test the feliform–caniform split and relationships among extant families.
Represented range0–0 Ma
RegionsLiving Carnivora tissue and sequence sample
CladesCarnivora · Feliformia · Caniformia
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topology · high
A 6,243-bp concatenation from six loci in 76 living carnivoran species strongly separates sampled Feliformia and Caniformia, while internal resolution and taxon representation remain properties of that sequence dataset and its models.