Table 2. The four fossil species of the mammalian order Carnivora assessed in this study. All material is housed in the Palaeontology Department of London's Museum of Natural History.

Species Family Locality Age Specimen number Stance Digits Locomotor Mode Cynelos lemanensis Amphicyonidae Allier, France (unspecified) Early Miocene / Late Oligocene M 26736 Plantigrade 5 Terrestrial Enhydriodon latipes Mustelidae Pikermi, Greece Miocene (MN 12) M 9002 Semidigitigrade 5 Natatorial Ictitherium viverrinum Hyaenidae Pikermi, Greece Miocene (MN 12) M 9107 Digitigrade 4 Terrestrial Paramachairodus orientalis Felidae Pikermi, Greece Miocene (MN 12) M 8964 Semidigitigrade 4 Terrestrial