oreodont

American

[awr-ee-uh-dont, ohr-] / ˈɔr i əˌdɒnt, ˈoʊr- /

noun

any of various extinct North American artiodactyls of the families Merycoidodontidae or Agriochoeridae, widespread from the late Eocene through early Miocene epochs.

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At one point, Brown alone had discovered more than half of the dinosaur specimens on display in the American Museum, along with fossils ranging from prehistoric horses to a piglike “oreodont” that went extinct 6 million years ago.

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