Lycaon sekowei

Lycaon sekowei is an extinct canid species from southern Africa that lived during the early Pleistocene epoch, dating from 2 to 1 million years ago.
Hartstone-Rose and colleagues claimed that L. sekowei was a hypercarnivore just like the modern African wild dog, though its front paws were not as specialized for running. They also proposed that L. sekowei was the ancestor of the wild-dog lineage based on dental morphology similar to that of L. pictus and the European Lycaon-like canids. In 2013, however, Madurell-Malapeira and colleagues considered the hypothesis that the genus Lycaon may have originated from Eurasia and dispersed into Africa by 2 million years ago would be more likely, given the substantial variability of dental characters and the relatively scarce African record of Lycaon-like canids.