Aelurotherium latidens Marsh 1872 (creodont)

Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae

Belongs to Aelurotherium according to J. L. Wortman 1901

See also Gazin 1976, Matthew 1909 and Thorpe 1923

Sister taxa: Patriofelis ferox, Patriofelis leidyanus, Patriofelis ulta, Aelurotherium bicuspis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Grizzly Buttes, which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Aelurotherium latidens in the database

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