Alternative combination: Aphelophis talpivorus
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1873. Synopsis of new Vertebrata from the Tertiary of Colorado obtained during the summer of 1873. Seventh Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (extract)
Belongs to Calamagras according to C. W. Gilmore 1938
See also Cope 1873, Hay 1902, Hay 1930 and Rage 1984
Sister taxa: Calamagras angulatus, Calamagras floridanus, Calamagras gallicus, Calamagras murivorus, Calamagras platyspondyla, Calamagras primus, Calamagras turkestanicus, Calamagras weigeli
Type specimen: AMNH No. 1598, a set of vertebrae (three vertebrae). Its type locality is Cedar Creek, which is in an Orellan terrestrial horizon in the Brule Formation of Colorado.
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution: found only at Cedar Creek
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