Name: Andrewsarchus (Andrew's ruler)
Phonetic: An-dru-sar-kus.
Named By: Discovered by Kan Chuen Pao in 1923, Henry Fairfield Osborn wrote the description in 1924.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla.
Species: A. mongoliensis (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Total size uncertain due to lack of remains. Skull is 83 centimetres long.
Known locations: Mongolia.
Time period: Lutetian through to Priabonian of the Eocene.
Fossil representation: Skull.
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