Meninatherium
Meninatherium Temporal range: Late Oligocene
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
Genus: | †Meninatherium Abel, 1910 |
Species: | †M. telleri
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Binomial name | |
†Meninatherium telleri Abel, 1910
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Meninatherium is a poorly understood extinct genus of Asian rhinoceros. It is known only from an Upper Oligocene European type specimen which was destroyed during World War II.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ Prothero, Donald R. (1986). "The phylogeny of the Rhinocerotoidea (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87: 341–366. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1986.tb01340.x.
- ^ Obel, A (1910). "Kritische Untersuchungen über die palaogenen Rhinocerotiden Europas" (PDF). Abhandlungen Kaiserlich-Koenigliche Geologische Reichsanstalt. 20 (3): 1–51.
Categories:
- Oligocene rhinoceroses
- Oligocene mammals of Europe
- Prehistoric monotypic mammal genera
- Prehistoric odd-toed ungulate stubs