Carnivoramorpha ("carnivoran-like forms") is a clade of placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae, that includes the modern order Carnivora and its extinct stem-relatives. [4][5] The common feature for members of this …

Carnivora (/ kɑːrˈnɪvərə / kar-NIH-vər-ə) is an order of placental mammals specialized primarily in eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans.

Fossils preserve morphologies that can become obscured along these long branches, and also provide temporal context for the evolution of living clades that may be crucial for accurately reconstructing ancestral conditions and partitioning synapomorphic versus homoplasious resemblances among modern-day taxa.

Carnivoramorpha are a clade of mammals that includes the modern order Carnivora. [1] [2] It is basal to the Carnivora but does not include the Creodonts, which are a separate order.

With over 260 living species, Carnivora is one of the most species-rich clades of mammals. It should be noted that the term ‘carnivoran’ is a phylogenetic classification, in contrast to ‘carnivore’, an ecological classification describing any meat-eater.

Dec 1, 2020 · Here we describe the earliest known African occurrence of a carnivoraform from the early Oligocene Zallah Incision locality in the Sirt Basin of central Libya. The new taxon is represented by three teeth (m1, P4, and dP3), all of which are carnassial loci diagnostic of the Carnivoraformes.

With this ecological, morphological, and taxonomic diversity and a fossil record spanning over sixty million years, Carnivora has proven to be a model clade for addressing questions of broad evolutionary significance.

Mar 9, 2010 · The data set for the phylogenetic analyses includes 99 cranial and dental characters from 40 taxa, representing a wide range of early Cenozoic fossil carni‐voramorphan taxa traditionally included within the ‘Miacoidea’, representatives of …

Jul 29, 2010 · As a case study, we sampled living and extinct species of carnivorous mammals in Carnivoramorpha, the clade including all living Carnivora (dogs, cats, seals, bears, etc.) and their extinct...

Apr 25, 2012 · Carnivoramorphan phylogeny has been the focus of a number of recent morphological cladistic studies (e.g. Wyss & Flynn 1993; Wesley-Hunt & Flynn 2005). Those attempts to reconstruct relationships o...