Entelodont

Entelodonts Temporal range: Middle Eocene – Lower Miocene 40 – 18 million years ago
Illustration of Entelodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Suina
Superfamily:	†Entelodontoidea
Family:	†Entelodontidae Lydekker, 1883

Entelodonts were a family family of pig-like omnivores widespread in forests of North America, Europe, and Asia.

They flourished for about 20+ million years from the middle Eocene to the early Miocene epochs.

It is thought that they included omnivores, carnivores and scavengers.