Description

Entelodon – meaning “complete teeth”, from Ancient Greek enteles “complete” and odon “tooth”, referring to its “complete” eutherian dentition, is an extinct genus of entelodont artiodactyl endemic to Eurasia. Fossils of species are found in Paleogene strata ranging in age from the Houldjinian (37.2?33.9 mya) until the Rupelian epoch of the early Oligocene (33.9?28.4 mya).