I've tried searching on Wikipedia but I couldn't find what family dogs belonged to. Ursidae is 'bears' and Canis is 'dogs' ; Panthera is big cats like:- tigers and jaguars is what I know.
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You will be interested int he ressources from the post The best free and most up to date phylogenetic tree on the internet? – Remi.b Nov 17 '18 at 17:38
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No, because panthers are cats, but bears are not dogs. You can see their phylogeny in a figure from one of my papers here: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Most-likely-phylogram-derived-from-the-Bayesian-Analysis-ln-533753675-Numerals_fig1_6550244
As you can see, Bears are most closely related to pinneped (seals and sea lions), with dogs as sister to that group.
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