Rhinotitan
Rhinotitan Temporal range:
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Skeletal mount, Paleozoological Museum of China. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | †Brontotheriidae |
Genus: | †Rhinotitan Granger and Gregory, 1943 |
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Rhinotitan (giant snout) is an extinct genus of brontothere from the Eocene of China.
It weighed 1.5 tons. It ate many plants amongst herbs and fruits that were available in the Eocene era.
References[]
- ^ Rhinotitan at fossilworks.org
- Classification of Mammals by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell
Categories:
- Brontotheres
- Eocene odd-toed ungulates
- Eocene mammals of Asia
- Fossil taxa described in 1943
- Prehistoric odd-toed ungulate stubs