Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Entelodontidae
Full reference: W. J. Sinclair. 1922. Entelodonts from the Big Badlands of South Dakota in the geological museum of Princeton University. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 60:467-495
Belongs to Archaeotherium according to W. B. Scott 1940
See also Effinger 1998 and Sinclair 1922
Sister taxa: Archaeotherium calkinsi, Archaeotherium caninus, Archaeotherium coarctatum, Archaeotherium crassum, Archaeotherium imperator, Archaeotherium marshi, Archaeotherium mortoni, Archaeotherium palustris, Archaeotherium superbum, Archaeotherium trippensis, Archaeotherium wanlessi, Eotherium abeli, Eotherium markgrafi, Choerodon calkinsi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Peanut Peak, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution: found only at Peanut Peak
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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