Archaeotherium - Entelodontidae were distant relatives of pigs, probably omnivorous with a greater carnivorous tendency;...

Archaeotherium - Entelodontidae were distant relatives of pigs, probably omnivorous with a greater carnivorous tendency; they lived in the oligocene about 30 million years ago. Here, an Archaeotherium mortoni pursues a Poebrotherium. Entelodonts (Entelodontidae) were peculiar distant relatives of pigs that lived during the Oligocene-Miocene and possessed an omnivorous lifestyle, with probably greater carnivorous tendancy than is found in today's pigs. For example, fossil evidence indicates that Archaeotherium mortoni, illustrated here pursuing Poebrotherium in Oligocene South Dakota, likely hunted and cached carcaces of the small camelid