Talk:Entelodont
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[edit] Entelodon
Why does "Entelodon" redirect here? "Entelodon" and "entelodont" are different! Entelodont is a group of animals that Entelodon belongs to, while Entelodon is a kind of animal! Dora Nichov 04:07, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Good point. ""Entelodon"" is actually a subjective synonym of ""Archaeotherum"" and should redirect to that genus, whereas entelodont is a common name for the family Entelodontidae. Entelodont 03:32, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lifestyle
In general though, they were probably too smelly and too noisy to have made good predators on fast plains mammals How can one know this from fossil evidence, of corse an analysis with modern genera is purely speculative. A good citation for this is needed along with the rest of the article. Enlil Ninlil 07:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rewrite
The references seems to have been copies by the writer, so must be rewriten. Enlil Ninlil 07:16, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
- I've deleted the copyviol I could find, although one of the web sources was unavailable (http://www.avph.hpg.ig.com.br/dinohyus.htm - possibly deleted) at the time, so I could not check that one. I've added some in-text cites, so that should be both clean-up tags taken care of. The article could still do with improving, though. Anaxial (talk) 14:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Plus, Archaeotherium was supposed to be pretty fast as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Metalraptor (talk • contribs) 17:27, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Whoa, whoa, whoa
Wait a minute here. With the exception of "Walking With" and some paleontology manuals from 1923, who still call entelodonts 'Elotherids', I have never seen anyone say they're basically overgrown, stinky warthogs. There is evidence from the Badlands that Archaeotherium was a vicious predator, and bones at Agate Fossil beds show Daeodon tooth marks in Moropus bones.
