Daeodon

Daeodon; Temporal range: Mid-Oligocene–Middle Miocene; (Arikareean–Early Hemingfordian); ~
	A skull of Dinohyus hollandi at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	†Entelodontidae
Genus:	†Daeodon; Cope, 1878
Type species
	†Daeodon shoshonensis; Cope, 1878
Species
	†D. shoshonensis Cope, 1878; †D. humerosum? Cope, 1879;
Synonyms
	Boochoerus Cope, 1879 ; Ammodon Marsh, 1893 ; Dinohyus Peterson, 1905b;

Daeodon is an extinct genus of entelodont even-toed ungulates 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 synonymize 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, larger than Daeodon, is the Asian Paraentelodon, but it is known by very incomplete material.

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