Fig. 1

Cladogram of carnivoran species with available ossification sequence data. Carnivora is divided into two major clades, Caniformia (blue box, dog silhouette) and Feliformia (red box, cat silhouette). New caniform species included in this study are highlighted in bold blue text and new feliforms are in bold red text. *indicates only cranial data is available for this species. **indicates only postcranial data is available. ***indicates domesticated species. Silhouettes are from phylopic.org