6.9" Fossil Oreodont (Merycoidodon) Skull - Wyoming

Fossil Oreodont (Merycoidodon) Skull - Wyoming #144156

This is a 6.9" long skull of Merycoidodon culbertsoni, an Oreodont. It was collected from the the Brule Formation in Wyoming and would be approximately 30-34 million years old.

There are numerous repairs as there would be with an white river material but it has not been restored.

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.

SPECIES

Merycoidodon culbertsoni

AGE

Oligocene (32 Million Years)