Cryptozoology forums > Animals > Extinct > view thread

Subject: Re: Extinct Canids From: the bloo mew posted Thu, Sep 8 2005, 4:21pm  cynognathus and andrewsarcus are canids......i think..... Subject: Re: Extinct Canids From: meghan_14 posted Thu, Sep 8 2005, 6:12pm  Whoa! Not THAT extinct! I'm talking recently (last 200 or so years), not prehistoric! Although I think you're right; cynognathus and andrewsarcus were primitive mammals. Subject: Re: Extinct Canids From: Uklay posted Fri, Sep 9 2005, 2:59am  I'm pretty sure that Andrewsarchus and the like were not closely related to Canids at all, and I don't think they were even part of Carnivora, they were a form of hoofed mammal and their group gave rise to the cetaceans as well. Subject: Re: Extinct Canids From: Lovecraft posted Fri, Sep 9 2005, 6:06am  Cynognathus was a mammal-like reptile, so it's obviously not a canine. Andrewsarchus was indeed a Mesonychid, an ungulate that was closely related to whales but apparently not directly. Subject: Re: Extinct Canids From: King Wolf posted Sat, Sep 10 2005, 10:37am  I thought that they were related to sheep. Subject: Re: Extinct Canids From: Lovecraft posted Sat, Sep 10 2005, 11:06am  They were in the order Mesonychia which is a "sister" order of the artiodactyls, which includes sheep. That statement is very misleading however, since it would be like saying humans are related to colugos since they are in sister orders. They are our relatives, but very distant ones at best.

Close Window