Brachypsalis hyaenoides Cope 1881 (mustelid carnivore)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Alternative combination: Aelurodon hyaenoides

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1881. On the Canidae of the Loup Fork Epoch. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey 6(2):387-390

Belongs to Brachypsalis according to W. D. Matthew 1918

See also Baskin 1998, Cope 1881, Cope and Matthew 1915, Green 1948, Hay 1902, Scott and Osborn 1890 and VanderHoof and Gregory 1940

Sister taxa: Brachypsalis matutinus, Brachypsalis modicus, Brachypsalis obliquidens, Brachypsalis pachycephalus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Republican River, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in Nebraska

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Republican River

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