Abstract: AbstractThe canids belong to one of the most prominent families of mammalian carnivores. Feeding adaptations of extant species is well documented by field observations; however, we are still missing palaeoecological insights for many enigmatic fossil specimens. We employ geometric morphometrics to quantify skull size and shape in extant and fossil members of the Canini tribe, inclusive of jackals and wolf‐like taxa. Skull data are tested to identify correlates of dietary adaptations in extant species for predicting adaptations in fossils. Mai...
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Zoology
Evolutionary biology
Ecology