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
Parent taxon: Entelodontidae according to W. B. Scott 1940
See also Effinger 1998 and Sinclair 1922
Sister taxa: Archaeotherium, Arctodon, Cypretherium, Daeodon, Dinohyus, Entelodon, Entelodontellus, Ergilobia, Megachoerus, Paraentelodon, Pelonax, Proentelodontinae
Subtaxa: Scaptohyus altidens
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (1: South Dakota collection)
• Eocene of United States (1: South Dakota)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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