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PhilipEdwin — Miocene Daeodon in a common Holocene enviornment
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The North American Miocene meets the Holocene. An Entelodont (Daeodon) sees off a large black bear who unwittingly encroached into its territory.People have been illustrating the entelodonts as "Hell Pigs" ever since they were mistakenly assigned to Suina. In actual fact entelodonts are as closely related to lions or camels as they are to pigs.
They are however part of Whippomorpha, a proposed clade also containing whales and hippopotamus. So I tried to give the Daeodon more of a porpoise look here, although a svelte, dry-land hippo look may have been more appropriate.
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Thanks.
We have a lot of bears and coyotes visit garbage dumps for tidbits where I live, so I thought if Entelodonts had survived they might do the same.
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Actually, they were walking hippo whales; in the best term of understanding. Thought the daeodon definitely hunted down and its remains taken as a trophy by a much successful but a terrible species of a highly evolved simian... Wonderful concept thought
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Or an elk carcass left by a pack of gray wolves......
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"In actual fact entelodonts are as closely related to lions or camels as they are to pigs."
Only half right,yes they are as closely related to camels as they are to pigs,but lions are a hole different order of mammals,while the former 3 are all part of the Artiodactyl order.You should fix that state meant.
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Carnivora is ranked within the clade Fereuungulata, which contains Cetartiodactyla (entelodonts), Carnivora (Lions), Pholidota (Pangolins), Perissodactyla (rhinos) and
Artiodactyla (Camels and Pigs). This clade is based on molecular phylogenetics.
See:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fereuung…
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So your saying hippos are no longer part of the order Artiodactyl,they and the whales are now their own order,well Wikipedia changes these information's every year.
Still once these orders within Fereungulata are divided into 2 groups again I do believe the carnivores,credonts and pangolins fall into one and the rest in the other.
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Wikipedia was an easy link, there's some great articles on carnivore molecular cladistics on Scientific Americans site. I don't have the time to provide look up and provide you with the links, but I encourage you to search for, and read them, yourself.
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Excellent artwork and certainly looks better as a whippomorph
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Very well done! The entelodont looks really realistic!
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