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Mephitidae skunks and stink badgers

Canidae coyotes, dogs, foxes, jackals, and wolves

Mustelidae badgers, otters, weasels, and relatives

Otariidae fur seals and sea lions

Procyonidae coatis, raccoons, and relatives; cacomistle, coatis, raccoons, and relatives

Phocidae seals

Odobenidae walruses

Ursidae bears

Vulpes foxes

miacid Miacidae, which was a small tree-living mammal. During the mid-Eocene carnivores split into two suborders that we know today as Caniformia, the dogs, and Feliformia, the cats. Caniforms diverged into three lineages or subfamilies: the Hesperocyoninae (western dogs), the Borophaginae (bone-crushing dogs), and the only extant group, the Canidae which includes dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, etc. The canid group branched out on its own around 10 mya, most likely as a result of an open niche from past

Nasua coatis

Mephitis hooded skunk and striped skunk

Canis dogs, jackals, and wolves

Zalophus California sea lion

Urocyon gray foxes

Martes martens

Aonyx clawless otters

Ursus thibetanus Asiatic black bear

area, a small beige to white colored crescent across the throat, and a small spot of white on the chin. The white fur on the muzzle seldom reaches the orbits of the bear.The skull of U. thibetanus is typical of the Suborder Caniformia, bearing a long rostrum. However, the orbits are typically smaller than those of most caniforms. The width of the mastoid rarely exceeds the length of the palate. The auditory bullae are flat. The muzzle is long and narrow, and does not extend very far over the canines. The

Arctocephalus australis South American fur seal

Canis aureus golden jackal

Canis simensis Ethiopian wolf; Simian jackal; Simien fox

Cerdocyon thous crab-eating fox

Dusicyon australis Falkland Island wolf

Lycalopex vetulus hoary fox

Arctocephalus galapagoensis Galápagos fur seal

Callorhinus ursinus northern fur seal

Conepatus leuconotus North American hog-nosed skunks

Histriophoca fasciata ribbon seal

Lycalopex gymnocercus pampas fox

Nasua nasua South American coati