3.1" Partial Juvenile Oreodont (Merycoidodon) Skull - South Dakota

Partial Juvenile Oreodont (Merycoidodon) Skull - South Dakota #144204

This

Artists reconstruction of Merycoidodon. By Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com)

is a 3.1" long partial skull of a juvenile Merycoidodon culbertsoni, an Oreodont, from the the White River Formation of Pennington County, South Dakota.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

Oreodonts are an extinct mammal most closely related to camels and pigs. They have no close relatives living today. They were herbivorous, with short faces and fang-like canine teeth. About the size of a sheep, they roamed the plains of North America in huge numbers during the Oligocene period.