Leptocyon were small-bodied, fox-like animals with a long, narrow jaw and delicate teeth. They were probably omnivorous, feeding on small animals and fruit in a diet that remained relatively unchanged during the Miocene .

2019年4月28日 · Among the earliest ancestors of modern dogs, various species of Leptocyon roamed the plains and woodlands of North America for a whopping 25 million years, making this small, foxlike animal one of the most successful mammalian genera of all time.

2019年8月17日 · Leptocyon was the first true canine (that is, it belonged to the caninae subfamily of the Canidae family), but a small and unobtrusive one, not much bigger than Hesperocyon itself.

2016年8月31日 · Leptocyon was the first true canine and mainly lived in Eurasia and South America. In North America, about six million years ago, populations of Eucyon evolved into the first members of the modern dog genus Canis, which spread to these other continents.

The genus Leptocyon (Greek: leptos slender + cyon dog) includes 11 species and was the first primitive canine. They were small and weighed around 2 kg.

Leptocyon were small-bodied, fox-like animals with a long, narrow jaw and delicate teeth. They were probably omnivorous, feeding on small animals and fruit in a diet that remained relatively unchanged during the Miocene .

2022年11月14日 · Leptocyon was an early fox-like carnivorous dog that likely preyed on smaller animals such as Entoptychus or Archaeolagus. It is a member of the Caninae, this group of dogs would eventually give rise to all living wild dog species, including domestic dogs.

The diminutive Leptocyon, the first canine, would have been chasing small, quick prey while its borophagine elders were taking down much larger animals. Unlike the earlier canid groups, Caninae got around, expanding into Asia, Africa and Europe around 8 million years ago, possibly propelled in part by longer legs than their predecessors.

2007年1月9日 · As in the hesperocyonines and borophagines, a small fox-sized species of Leptocyon is the earliest recognized member of the subfamily Caninae. Besides sharing a

2018年6月17日 · Phylogenetic relationships among 36 Recent and 42 extinct species of the Caninae (Canidae) were analysed, based on 360 morphological, developmental, ecological, behavioural and cytogenetic characters and 24 mitochondrial and nuclear markers.