Bothriodon (Greek: "pit" (botros), "teeth" (odontes)) is an extinct genus of anthracotheriid artiodactyl from the late Eocene to early Oligocene of Asia, Europe, and North America.
Bothriodon (Greek: "pit" (botros), "teeth" (odontes)) is an extinct genus of anthracotheriid artiodactyl from the late Eocene to early Oligocene of Asia, Europe, and North America.
== Description == thumb|Life reconstruction by Robert Bruce Horsfall, 1913 Bothriodon was about the size of a large pig, reaching an estimated weight of more than 199 kg (439 lbs). Bothriodon possesses molars transitional between bunodont and selenodont in morphology. Alongside this, the upper molars possess 5 cusps as opposed to the derived 4. They also possessed a reduced pollex on the 5 toed manus.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).