| Daeodon is an extinct genus of entelodont artiodactyl that inhabited North America about 23 to 20 million years ago during the latest Oligocene and earliest Miocene. The type species is Daeodon shoshonensis, described by a very questionable holotype by Cope. Some authors synonimize it with Dinohyus hollandi and several other species (see below), but due to the lack of diagnostic material, this is questionable at best.
Another large member of this family, similar in size to Daeodon, is the Asian Paraentelodon, but it is known by very incomplete material. |
