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    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...
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    (Mya) Carpocyon from 20.4 to 3.9 Mya Paratomarctus from 16.3 to 5.3 Mya Aelurodon from 16.0 to 5.3 Mya Canis lepophagus from 10.3 to 1.8 Mya Fossil specimens...
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    Caninae have only four toes normally. Noteworthy genera in this group are Aelurodon, Epicyon, and Borophagus (=Osteoborus). According to Xiaoming Wang, the...
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    skeletal details of the neck, at least some of the Borophaginae (such as Aelurodon) are believed to have lacked this ligament. Dentition relates to the arrangement...
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    Borophagini Temporal range: Oligocene-Early Pliocene Borophagus secundus (top), Aelurodon taxoides (middle), Tomarctus brevirostris (bottom). Scientific classification...
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    brevirostris and Tomarctus hippophaga. Tomarctus brevirostris, synonymous with Aelurodon francisi, was named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1873. Fossil specimens have...
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    some bones show that local predators (the carnivorous bone-crunching dog Aelurodon) scavenged some of the carcasses, but no predator remains have yet surfaced...
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  • Protomarctus Tephrocyon Cynarctina Paracynarctus Cynarctus Aelurodontina Tomarctus Aelurodon Borophagina Paratomarctus Carpocyon Protepicyon Epicyon Borophagus...
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    Protomarctus Tephrocyon Cynarctina Paracynarctus Cynarctus Aelurodontina Tomarctus Aelurodon Borophagina Paratomarctus Carpocyon Protepicyon Epicyon Borophagus...
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    Protomarctus Tephrocyon Cynarctina Paracynarctus Cynarctus Aelurodontina Tomarctus Aelurodon Borophagina Paratomarctus Carpocyon Protepicyon Epicyon Borophagus...
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