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Daeodon
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thumb|Daeodon shoshonensis life restoration thumb|Daeodon (Dinohyus) hollandi, complete skeleton from the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument|Agate Springs Fossil Quarry in Nebraska. See text for nomenclature history

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thumb|Daeodon shoshonensis life restoration thumb|Daeodon (Dinohyus) hollandi, complete skeleton from the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument|Agate Springs Fossil Quarry in Nebraska. See text for nomenclature history

Daeodon is an extinct genus of entelodont even-toed ungulates that inhabited North America about 29 to 15.97 million years ago from the early Oligocene to late early Miocene. The type species is Daeodon shoshonensis, described from a very fragmentary 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 may be questionable.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Daeodon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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