- the Agrioc****idae, smaller,
primitive oreodonts.
Together they form the now-extinct
suborder Oreodonta.
Oreodonts may have been
distantly related to pigs...
- and its last
descendants are
known from the end of the Miocene, so that
oreodonts,
broadly speaking,
lived throughout most of the Paleogene. Merycoidodon...
- entelodonts, and three-toed equids. As in the
previous Oligocene Epoch,
oreodonts were
still diverse, only to
disappear in the
earliest Pliocene. During...
- and
horse all
seeing po****tions recede. Three-toed
horses (Nannippus),
oreodonts, protoceratids, and
chalicotheres became extinct.
Borophagine dogs and...
- of
plants and more than 100
species of mammals,
including dogs, cats,
oreodonts, horses, camels, and rodents.
Among the
notable plant fossils are Metasequoia...
- America. It had a
rather robust jaw, and like all
oreodonts,
sharp canine teeth.
Unlike many
other oreodonts, who were
restricted to
certain habitats and places...
-
types of mid-sized bear dogs. Promerycoc****us, a
semiaquatic hippo-like
oreodont. Daeodon, the
largest Entelodont (giant pig-like ungulate). Stenomylus...
-
Leptomeryx (Tragulid)
Merycoidodon (
Oreodont)
Mesohippus (Horse)
Metamynodon (Aquatic Rhino) Minioc****us (
Oreodont)
Poebrotherium (Camel) Subhyracodon...
- Cainotheriidae,
belong to the
artiodactyl suborder Tylopoda,
together with
oreodonts and
modern camelids.
Species had
cloven hooves,
similar to
those of bovids...
- is
known for the
recovery of
casts of the
brain cavity (endocast) of
oreodonts. When an
animal dies and the soft
tissues decay,
sediments fill the ****s...
