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is relatively small. Especially noticeable is the very massive character 

 of the ramus, which has nearly twice the bulk of that in a timber wolf 

 with a cheek-tooth series of approximately the same anteroposterior 

 diameter. 



11 



Fig. 10. Aelurodon, near wheelerianus Cope. Mandible, no. 19398, lateral 

 and superior views, X %. Barstow Miocene, Mohave Desert, California. 



Fig. 11. Aelurodon, near wheelerianus Cope. Mandible, no. 21231, lateral and 

 superior views, X Barstow Miocene, Mohave Desert, California. 



Measurements 





A. 



wheelerianus 



No. 19455 



Canis 







type 



Barstow 



pambasileus 



Length, anterior side F 1 to posterior 



side M :! 



95 mm. 



88.5 



92.7 



Mj, anteroposterior diameter 





28 



28.4 



28 



M-, anteroposterior diameter 





12 



10.3 



12.2 



Depth of jaw below M, 





35 



a35.5 



30 



Greatest thickness of jaw below M 2 .... 





17 



18 



11.7 



a, approximate. 



