1.71" Fossil Predatory "Pig" (Archaeotherium) Tooth - Nebraska

This is a beautifully preserved rooted predatory "pig" (Archaeotherium mortoni) tooth collected from the Oligocene-aged White River Badlands Group of Nebraska. Including the root, the tooth measures 1.71" long.

Comes with a riker mount display case.

Archaeotherium was about 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) tall at the shoulder and around 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long and weighing around 270 kg (600 lb). Although superficially pig-like, Archaeotherium, along with all other entelodonts, was more closely related to anthracotheres, hippopotamuses, and whales. Evidence from the Wyoming Dinosaur Center suggests that the omnivorous Archaeotherium, like many modern predatory mammals, kept caches of food for times when their hunting was less successful.
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SPECIES
Archaeotherium mortoni
LOCATION
Nebraska
FORMATION
White River Badlands Group
SIZE
1.71" long
CATEGORY
ITEM
#338427
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