History

 

 

Through the help of our Palaeontologists, carbon dating and DNA analysis, we can roughly state the time and place give or take up to a million years that dogs, canines, Canis Familiaris, are said to come from. .

 

 

Before we go back 60 million years, it has been noted that the Ravenictis (apparently going back even further, beyond the Cretaceous Tertiary-K.T. Mass Extinction point) were carnivorous and probably led to Miacis in late Paleocene (a tree-climbing animal with 5 retractable claws.
Miacis were around the size of a weasel, approx 30cm, and lived in Europe and North America) – an extinct genus of species of mammals of the family Miacidae from the superfamily Miacoidea.
These were a primitive group of small marten like carnivores, which could be the ancestors of today’s carnivores, alive during the Paleocene and Eocene Epochs (33.9 m.y.a – 65.5 m.y.a) and are said to have split/evolved into two types of mammals.

 

 

1. Miacidae, later evolving into the dog (caniformia, a suborder within the order Carnivora) lineages.

 

 

2. Viverravidae evolving into the cat (feliformia, also with the order Carnivora) lineages, the split was around 42 m.y.a.