Daeodon
Sign in to savethumb|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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8 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Description
- Paleoecology
- Habitat
- Diet
- Behavior
- References
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.