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Archaeotherium
author: Julius T. Csotonyi/Novapix
reference: t-din06-10501
Image Size 300 DPI: 30 * 21 cm
Entelodonts (Entelodontidae) were peculiar distant relatives of pigs that lived during the Oligocene-Miocene and possessed an omnivorous lifestyle, with probably greater carnivorous tendancy than is found in today's pigs. For example, fossil evidence indicates that Archaeotherium mortoni, illustrated here pursuing Poebrotherium in Oligocene South Dakota, likely hunted and cached carcasses of the small camelid.
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