# Bothriodon

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Late [Eocene](/source/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](/source/extinct) [genus](/source/genus) of [anthracotheriid](/source/anthracotheriidae) [artiodactyl](/source/Artiodactyla) from the late [Eocene](/source/Eocene) to early [Oligocene](/source/Oligocene) of [Asia](/source/Asia), [Europe](/source/Europe), and [North America](/source/North_America).

== Description ==
[[File:Bothriodon brachyrhynchus.jpg|thumb|Life reconstruction by [Robert Bruce Horsfall](/source/Robert_Bruce_Horsfall), 1913 ]]
''Bothriodon'' was about the size of a large [pig](/source/pig), reaching an estimated weight of more than 199&nbsp;kg (439&nbsp;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](/source/bunodont) and selenodont in morphology. Alongside this, the upper [molars](/source/Molar_(tooth)) possess 5 cusps as opposed to the derived 4. They also possessed a reduced [pollex](/source/Thumb) on the 5 toed [manus](/source/Hand).<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==
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==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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