Eporeodon

Taxobox
name = "Eporeodon"


image_caption = "Eporeodon major"
fossil_range = Late Oligocene to Early Miocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
order = Artiodactyla
familia = †Merycoidodontidae
subfamilia = †Eporeodontidae
genus = "Eporeodon"
species = "E. major"

The species of the genus "Eporeodon" are among the largest members 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. On the other hand, "Eporeodon" was a rare oreodont, as its fossils only make up about one percent of all oreodont fossils found in the Badlands.

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".