Aelurosaurus wilmanae Broom 1940 (therapsid)

Osteichthyes - Therapsida - Gorgonopidae

Alternative combinations: Aelurosauroides wilmanae, Aelurosauropsis wilmanae

Full reference: R. Broom. 1940. On some new genera and species of fossil reptiles from the Karroo Beds of Graaff-Reinet. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20:157-192

Belongs to Aelurosaurus according to D. S. Sigogneau-Russell 1989

See also Haughton and Brink 1954

Sister taxa: Aelurosaurus angusticeps, Aelurosaurus brevirostris, Aelurosaurus felinus, Aelurosaurus polyodon, Aelurosaurus watermeyeri, Aelurosaurus whaitsi

Type specimen: MMK 4667, a skull. Its type locality is New Bethesda Commonage, which is in a Wuchiapingian/Changhsingian terrestrial horizon in the Balfour Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at New Bethesda Commonage

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