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Paraceratherium means "near the hornless beast", in reference to Aceratherium, the genus in which the type species P. bugtiense was originally placed. The exact size of Paraceratherium is unknown because of the incompleteness of the fossils. The shoulder height was about 4.8 metres (15.7 feet), and the length about 7.4 metres (24.3 feet).
English: A scale chart showing the estimated size for some of the largest Paraceratherium remains compared to a large male giraffe and humans. • Paraceratherium transouralicum (or P. asiaticum or P. grangeri depending on the author) redrawn from Larramendi (2016; Appendix 1, AG), representing AMNH 26168/75.
The earliest paraceratheres like Juxia were comparable in size with living rhinoceroses with a body mass of three quarters to one and a half tons, while later members grew substantially larger, with the largest representatives (Paraceratherium, Dzungariotherium) estimated to have a body mass of 17 to possibly over 20 tonnes, making them the ...
Rhinocerotoidea is a superfamily of perissodactyls that appeared 56 million years ago in the Paleocene.They included four extinct families, the Amynodontidae, the Hyracodontidae, the Paraceratheriidae, and the Eggysodontidae.
Articles relating to the Paraceratheriidae, an extinct family of long-limbed, hornless rhinocerotoids, native to Asia and Eastern Europe.They originated in the Eocene epoch and lived until the end of the Oligocene.
Urtinotherium was thought of by Leonard Radinsky to be a transitional form between earlier paraceratheres, like Juxia, and later forms, such as Paraceratherium and Indricotherium (now Paraceratherium transouralicum). [6] This genus represents a primitive form of paracerathere that developed in the late Eocene.
For example, often shorter, thicker, bones belong to the largest and heaviest ungulates like the rhinoceros. [7] The ulnae and fibulae are reduced in horses. A common feature that clearly distinguishes this group from other mammals is the articulation between the astragalus, the scaphoid and the cuboid, which greatly restricts the mobility of ...
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