- the Agrioc****idae, smaller,
primitive oreodonts.
Together they form the now-extinct
suborder Oreodonta.
Oreodonts may have been
distantly related to pigs...
- 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...
- and its last
descendants are
known from the end of the Miocene, so that
oreodonts,
broadly speaking,
lived throughout most of the Paleogene. Merycoidodon...
- 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...
-
types of mid-sized bear dogs. Promerycoc****us, a
semiaquatic hippo-like
oreodont. Daeodon, the
largest Entelodont (giant pig-like ungulate). Stenomylus...
- he_late_Eocene_'oreonetine'_
oreodonts_Merycoidodontidae_Artiodactyla_Systematics_of_the_late_Eocene_'oreonetine'_
oreodonts_Merycoidodontidae_Artiodactyla...
-
Vertebrates would come to
include the
horse Hipparion, bison, camels, caribou,
oreodonts. Later,
during the Ice Age, the
northern third of the
state was covered...
- such as
primitive horses like Mesohippus, Brontotheres,
early camels,
oreodonts and even
primitive rhinos.
Species of
Hyaenodon have been
shown to have...
- of
plants and more than 100
species of mammals,
including dogs, cats,
oreodonts, horses, camels, and rodents.
Among the
notable plant fossils are Metasequoia...
- to be home to
creatures such as camels, three-toed horses, mastodonts,
oreodonts, saber-toothed cats,
ground sloths, and dire wolves.
Local Native Americans...
