Aelurodon

Aelurodon
Temporal range: Barstovian-Hemphillian
~15.97–5.3 Ma
A. stirtoni skeleton, National Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Subfamily: †Borophaginae
Tribe: †Borophagini
Subtribe: †Aelurodontina
Genus: †Aelurodon
Leidy, 1858
Type species
†Aelurodon ferox
Species[1][2]
  • †A. asthenostylus
  • †A. ferox
  • †A. mcgrewi
  • †A. montanensis
  • †A. stirtoni
  • †A. taxoides
Synonyms
  • Prohyaena Schlosser, 1890
  • Strobodon Webb, 1969

Aelurodon is an extinct canid genus of the subfamily Borophaginae which lived from the Barstovian land mammal age (16 mya) of the middle Miocene to the late Miocene epoch (5.332 mya).[2][3] Aelurodon existed for approximately 10.7 million years.

  1. ^ Wang, Xiaoming; Richard Tedford; Beryl Taylor (1999-11-17). "Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 243: 1–391. hdl:2246/1588. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 20, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  2. ^ a b Wang, Xiaoming; Benjamin Wideman; Ralph Nichols; Debra Hanneman (June 2004). "A new species of Aelurodon (Carnivora, Canidae) from the Barstovian of Montana" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (2): 445–452. doi:10.1671/2493. S2CID 21694500. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2008. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
  3. ^ Aelurodon, Age Range and Collections, PaleoBiology Database yu