Rhinotitan

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Rhinotitan
Temporal range: 37.2–33.9 Ma
Rhinotitan-Paleozoological Museum of China.jpg
Skeletal mount, Paleozoological Museum of China.
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Brontotheriidae
Genus: Rhinotitan
Granger and Gregory, 1943
Species[1]
  • Rhinotitan andrewsi Osborn, 1925
  • Rhinotitan kaiseni Osborn, 1925
  • Rhinotitan mongoliensis Osborn, 1923
  • Rhinotitan orientalis Yanovskaya, 1957
  • Rhinotitan quadridens Xu and Chiu, 1962
  • Sivatitanops rugosidens Pilgrim, 1925

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[]

  • Classification of Mammals by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell


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