Entelodont
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| Entelodonts Temporal range: Middle Eocene – Lower Miocene 40 – 18 million years ago |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Suina |
| Superfamily: | †Entelodontoidea |
| Family: | †Entelodontidae Lydekker, 1883 |
Entelodonts were a family family of pig-like omnivores widespread in forests of North America, Europe, and Asia.
They flourished for about 20+ million years from the middle Eocene to the early Miocene epochs.
It is thought that they included omnivores, carnivores and scavengers.
