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Pelecaniformes
Pelecaniformes Pel`e*can`i*for"mes, n. pl. [NL. See Pelican, and -form.] (Zo["o]l.) Those birds that are related to the pelican; the Totipalmi.

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- Other traits that separate the Caniformia from the Feliformia is that caniforms have longer jaws and more teeth, with less specialized carn****ial teeth...
- The separation of the Carnivora into the broad groups of feliforms and caniforms is widely accepted, as is the definition of Feliformia and Caniformia...
- Nimravidae are either basal feliforms or a sister group to both feliforms and caniforms, while the Barbourofelidae are a sister group to the Felidae. Physically...
- the New World, entering the Americas via the Bering land bridge. The caniforms include the Caninae, Procyonidae, bears, mustelids, skunks, and pinnipeds...
- pinnipeds). Arctoids are caniforms, along with dogs (canids) and extinct bear dogs (Amphicyonidae). The earliest caniforms were superficially similar...
- Canidae (/ˈkænɪdiː/; from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of caniform carnivorans, constituting a clade. A member of this family is also called...
- mammals of the family Ursidae (/ˈɜːrsɪdiː, -daɪ/). They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant...
- eureptiles had a caniform region of enlarged fang-like teeth in the front half of the skull, very few parareptiles possessed caniform teeth. Many amniotes...
- pinnipeds are more closely related to musteloids. Pinnipeds split from other caniforms 50 million years ago (mya) during the Eocene. The earliest fossils of...
- the next higher major taxon, Carnivora (considered an order), includes caniforms (bears, seals, weasels, skunks, raccoons and all those mentioned above)...