Eporeodon

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Eporeodon
Fossil range: Late Oligocene to Early Miocene

Eporeodon major

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Family:	†Merycoidodontidae
Subfamily:	†Eporeodontidae
Genus:	Eporeodon
Species:	major

Eporeodon was one of the largest genera of the oreodont family. About the size of a cow, its fossils are some of the largest found in the Badlands. It was much larger than Merycoidodon and Miniochoerus, its contemporaries in the Late Oligocene. Eporeodon fossils only make up about one percent of all oreodont fossils found in the Badlands.

[edit] Physiology

Eporeodon was a tremendous oreodont, growing to be about cow sized. Their skulls were much shorter and squatter than those of Merycoidodon, but were longer than those of Miniochoerus.