Infraorder Canoidea Simpson 1931 (carnivoran)
Alternative spelling: Caenoidea
Parent taxon: Caniformia according to S. Tomiya and Z. J. Tseng 2016
See also Chorn and Hoffman 1978, de Bonis et al. 2007, Korth et al. 2022, Mitchell and Tedford 1973, Savage 1965, Scheffer and Rice 1963 and Tomiya 2011
Sister taxa: Amphicyonidae, Cynoidea, Lycophocyon
Subtaxa: Arctoidea
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore