Entelodontidae
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entelodontidae-164-1691918
title:
Entelodontidae
text:
Entelodontidae is an extinct family of pig-like artiodactyls which inhabited the Northern Hemisphere from the late Eocene to the early Miocene epochs, about 38-19 million years ago. Their large heads, low snouts, narrow gait, and proposed omnivorous diet inspires comparisons to suids and tayassuids (peccaries), and historically they have been considered closely related to these families purely on a morphological basis. However, studies which combine morphological and molecular (genetic) data on
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
An extinct family of pig-like omnivores from North America and Eurasia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entelodontidae
date created:
2005-03-15T14:05:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T18:18:33Z
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13
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