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Archaeotherium

by

Julius T. Csotonyi/Novapix

Reference

t-din06-10501

Date

2010-04-27

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.