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AELURODON
(ay-lur-o-don)
Aelurodon
Named By: Joseph Leidy in 1858
Time Period: Middle Miocene-Late Miocene
Location: Across North America, especially the United States
Size: Between 30 and 56 kilograms in weight and about 70 centimetres high at the shoulder, depending upon the species
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Well over a hundred individuals of differing species
Classification: | Chordata | Mammalia | Carnivora | Canidae | Borophaginae |
Also known as: | Prohyaena | Strobodon |
About

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

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