Paraceratherium
genus of mammals (fossil) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paraceratherium [1] is an extinct genus of mammal. It was a large rhinoceros without a horn. It lived in Eurasia during the late Oligocene epoch of the Tertiary period, (34–23 million years ago).
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Mounted P. transouralicum skeleton, Moscow Paleontological Museum; this is the most completely known skeleton, but the skull is a cast of a specimen at American Museum of Natural History | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | †Paraceratheriidae |
Genus: | †Paraceratherium Forster-Cooper, 1911 |
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†Aceratherium bugtiense Pilgrim, 1908 | |
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Paraceratherium was one of the largest ever land mammals.[2] Its exact size is unclear because of the incompleteness of the fossils. The size of adults was about 4.8 metres (16 ft) tall at the shoulder, about 7.4 metres (24 ft) in length. Estimates of its weight have varied greatly.