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Daeodon, terrible hog
(Reader Contribution to 10 Most Amazing Extinct Animals)
Daeodon (formerly Dinohyus, "terrible hog"), one of the largest, if not the largest, entelodont artiodactyls, lived 25-18 million years ago in North America.
The 3.6 m (12 ft) long, 2.1 m (7 ft) tall (at-shoulder). 1m long skull,1000 kg mass, animal strongly resembled a giant, monstrous pig or warthog, possessing huge jaws with prominent tusks and flaring cheekbones. It was a huge, bone-crushing scavenger and predator, found at Agate Springs Quarry. It had long skull bones under its eyes and bony protrusions on the lower jaw, not dissimilar to the 'warts' of the warthog, which may have supported jaw muscles. The well-known genus Dinohyus ("terrible pig") has now been synonymized with Daeodon, as it is the earlier name, having priority.
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