Dinocerata

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Dinocerata Temporal range: Late Paleocene–Late Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Uintatherium.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Mesaxonia
Order:	†Dinocerata Marsh, 1872
Families & genera
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Eobasileus (left) and Uintatherium (right).

Dinocerata (from the Greek δεινός (deinós), "terrible", and κέρας (kéras), "horn") is an extinct order of plant-eating hoofed mammals with horns and protuberant canine teeth.

Classification[]

A 2015 phylogenetic study recovered Dinocerata as closely related to Carodnia, making them part of the Euungulata assemblage.^[1]

Taxonomy and phylogeny[]

Most experts^[who?] place the known genera of Dinocerata within one family, Uintatheriidae, and split it into two subfamilies, Uintatheriinae and Gobiatheriinae. Some experts prefer to split Uintatheriidae into three families, with Gobiatherium placed in the monogeneric family Gobiatheriidae, the other Eocene genera in Uintatheriidae proper, and the Paleocene genera Prodinoceras and Probathyopsis placed in the family "Prodinoceratidae".

• Laurasiatheria
  • Ungulatomorpha?
  • Order Dinocerata
    • Family Uintatheriidae
      • Subfamily Gobiatheriinae
        • Gobiatherium
      • Subfamily Uintatheriinae
        • Prodinoceras
        • Probathyopsis
        • Bathyopsis
        • Uintatherium
        • Eobasileus
        • Tetheopsis

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