Aelurodon
| Aelurodon | |
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| A. stirtoni skeleton, National Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | †Borophaginae |
| Tribe: | †Borophagini |
| Subtribe: | †Aelurodontina |
| Genus: | †Aelurodon Leidy, 1858 |
| Type species | |
| †Aelurodon ferox | |
| Species | |
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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 late Miocene epoch (5.332 mya). Aelurodon existed for approximately 10.7 million years.