Oreodont Skull, South Dakota

Oreodont Skull, South Dakota Prehistoric Online

Oreodonts are extinct Artiodactylids (even-toed mammals) most closely related to camels and pigs, with no close relatives living today. All are herbivorous, browsing on a diet of leaves and young shoots. This incredible fossil skull measures 7x5x3 inches. Gorgeous front and back.

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SKU: db-oreo-962

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Oreodonts are extinct Artiodactylids (even-toed mammals) most closely related to camels and pigs, with no close relatives living today. All are herbivorous, browsing on a diet of leaves and young shoots.

Although tempting to think of them as feeding on “grass”, true grasses did not appear until the late Oligocene, evolving and expanding widely during the Miocene as savannahs appeared during the cooling and drying of the that epoch. Oreodonts fed on different types of vegetation than many modern artiodactylids do and therefore occupied an ecologically different niche than many living ungulates.

Weight 64 oz
Dimensions 8 × 5 × 5 in
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