Aelurotherium bicuspis Wortman 1901 (creodont)

Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae

Full reference: J. L. Wortman. 1901. Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum. The American Journal of Science, series 4 12:193-206

Belongs to Aelurotherium according to J. L. Wortman 1901

See also Gazin 1957, Gunnell 1998, Matthew 1909 and Thorpe 1923

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Henry's Fork, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

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

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