Daeodon | |
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A skull of Dinohyus hollandi at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | †Entelodontidae |
Genus: | †Daeodon Cope, 1878 |
Type species | |
†Daeodon shoshonensis Cope, 1878
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Synonyms | |
Daeodon is an extinct genus of entelodont even-toed ungulates that inhabited North America about 29 to 15.97 million years ago during the latest Oligocene and earliest Miocene. The type species is Daeodon shoshonensis, described by a very questionable holotype by Cope. Some authors synonymize it with Dinohyus hollandi and several other species (see below), but due to the lack of diagnostic material, this is questionable at best.
Another large member of this family, larger than Daeodon, is the Asian Paraentelodon, but it is known by very incomplete material.[1][2]
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