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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. The only extant family is the Rhinocerotidae (true rhinoceroses), which survives as five living species. Extinct non ...
Articles relating to the Rhinocerotoidea, 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.
Ronzotherium is a basal genus within the family Rhinocerotidae, one of three families contained within the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, along with the Hyracodontidae and Amynodontidae. The family also contains all 5 extant rhinoceros species. 5 species have been identified within the genus: Ronzotherium velaunum (Aymard, 1853)
The Hyracodontidae are an extinct family of rhinocerotoids endemic to North America, Europe, and Asia during the Eocene through early Oligocene, living from 48.6 to 26.3 million years ago (Mya), existing about
The white rhinoceros is the largest living perissodactyl. Perissodactyla (/ p ə ˌ r ɪ s oʊ ˈ d æ k t ɪ l ə /, from Ancient Greek περισσός, perissós 'odd' and δάκτυλος, dáktylos 'finger, toe' [3]), or odd-toed ungulates, is an order of ungulates.
The superfamily Rhinocerotoidea can be traced back to the early Eocene—about 50 million years ago—with early precursors such as Hyrachyus. Rhinocerotoidea contains three families; the Amynodontidae, the Rhinocerotidae ("true rhinoceroses"), and the Hyracodontidae. The diversity within the rhinoceros group was much larger in prehistoric ...
Rhinocerotoidea (2 C, 13 P) T. Tapiroidea (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Ceratomorpha" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Juxia, ‘joo-she-a’, (from Chinese: 巨犀; pinyin: Jùxī; lit. 'gigantic rhinoceros') is an extinct genus of paraceratheriid, a group of herbivorous mammals that are related to the modern rhinoceros.