{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Late Eocene | image = Ancodon_americanus_skull.jpg | image_upright = 1.15 | image_caption = ''Bothriodon americanus'' skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | taxon = Bothriodon | authority = Aymard, 1848 }}
'''''Bothriodon''''' (Greek: "pit" (botros), "teeth" (odontes)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://research.amnh.org/paleontology/perissodactyl/concepts/glossary|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120123130/https://research.amnh.org/paleontology/perissodactyl/concepts/glossary|archive-date=20 November 2021|title=Glossary. American Museum of Natural History}}</ref>) is an extinct genus of anthracotheriid artiodactyl from the late Eocene to early Oligocene of Asia, Europe, and North America.
== Description == [[File:Bothriodon brachyrhynchus.jpg|thumb|Life reconstruction by Robert Bruce Horsfall, 1913 ]] ''Bothriodon'' was about the size of a large pig, reaching an estimated weight of more than 199 kg (439 lbs).<ref name="Tsubamoto 2010">{{cite journal |last1=Tsubamoto |first1=Takehisa |date=2010 |title=Additional specimens of the Anthracotheriidae (Mammalia; Artiodactyla) from the upper Eocene Ergilin Dzo Formation of Mongolia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Takehisa-Tsubamoto/publication/268346926 |journal=Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin |volume=3 |pages=143–147}}</ref> B''othriodon'' possesses molars transitional between bunodont and selenodont in morphology. Alongside this, the upper molars possess 5 cusps as opposed to the derived 4. They also possessed a reduced pollex on the 5 toed manus.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=William Berryman |url=http://archive.org/details/historyoflandmam00scot |title=A history of land mammals in the western hemisphere |date=1913 |publisher=New York, The MacMillan Company |others=Smithsonian Libraries}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * ''The Beginning of the Age of Mammals'' by Kenneth D. Rose * ''Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids'' by Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton
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Category:Anthracotheres Category:Eocene Artiodactyla Category:Eocene mammals of Asia Category:Eocene mammals of Europe Category:Eocene mammals of North America Category:Prehistoric Artiodactyla genera
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