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Taxonomy and distribution of Daeodon, an Oligocene-Miocene entelodont (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from North America

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Spencer G. Lucas at New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Spencer G. Lucas
Robert J. Emry at Smithsonian Institution
Robert J. Emry
Scott E Foss
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Dinohyus Peterson, 1906, the widely used generic name of the giant Oligocene-Miocene entelodont from North America, is a junior subjective synonym of Daeodon Cope, 1879. Ammodon Marsh, 1893 also is a junior subjective synonym of Daeodon. Five species have been named that we assign to Daeodon; D. shoshonensis Cope, 1879, D. leidyanus (Marsh, 1893), D. mento (Alien, 1926), D. hollandi (Peterson, 1905b), and D. minor (Loomis, 1932), and we tentatively consider all to represent a single species, D. shoshonensis Cope, 1879. The type material of D. leidyanus, from the basal Kirkwood Formation near Farmingdale, New Jersey is of early Miocene (late Arikareean) age. Other Daeodon occurrences range in age from late Oligocene (Arikareean) to early Miocene (Hemingfordian).
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