Archaeotherium was an extinct genus of entelodont artiodactyl endemic that onced lived to North America and Eurasia, existing approximately 9.1 million years, from the late Eocene to early Miocene.
It is also part of the Entelodont family, large pig-like monsters with overlarge heads but with small brains (As it is not really smart).
Characteristics[]
Archaeotherium was an cow-sized peccary with a large head with longer face that fills of shape canine teeth, humped shoulders, wide cheekbones, and pimples on the face similar to male warthogs, but without a pig-like nasal disk, which it is what similar to other family members of Entelodonts.
The living creature[]
An Archaeotherium, during the Oligocene.
Archaeotherium first appeared at the end of the Eocene and the start of the Oligocene, along with other canine predators like Hyaenodon, false or early Saber-toothed cats, and other mammals to hunt down on easy prey, from in North American and Eurasia.
Archaeotherium become the numbered one predators of the plains (later the Badlands and modern Eurasia), eating and killing their prey with their large teeth on camels, and early rhinos. Archaeotherium somewhat vanished from the fossil record, sometime after the Hyaenodon on the huge and low factor in the extinction for their unable to beat the new challenges, styles and prey to catch. However the species of Entelodont wasn't gone yet.
Importance[]
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Hyaenodon burial fossil and Archaeotherium upper skull, depicted in Prehistoric Predators, might have been the same animals that attacked each other
This family member, Archaeotherium, have a main rival with the other top predator, Hyaenodon. There was a fossil evidence shows that Creodonts wasn't even afraid to hunt on juvenile Entelodonts, but was likely it is true. When the upper skull of Archaeotherium was little and small, a Hyaenodon grabbed it by the snout, shook it but didn't kill it and Arcaeotherium survive the brutal attack.
Though Hyaenodon was faster and have shape teeth, Archaeotherium's jaws opens very wide to crush its head. And it have might been the same animals that fought each other over a dead corpse that Hyaenodon kill, in this evidence does suggest that. Hyaenodon was defeated by getting its shoulder blade was broken by Archaeotherium by using its ability of charge, which it was agreed that the creodont didn't have a weaponry to hold off from a hungry Entelodont, having the pig's revenge was over.