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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).
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 ...
The Indricotherium Formation is a palaeontological formation located in Kazakhstan. It dates to the Oligocene period. It is named after Paraceratherium , also commonly known as Indricotherium , an extinct genus of gigantic hornless rhinoceros -like mammals of the family Hyracodontidae .
Hyracodontidae developed long limbs and long necks that were most pronounced in the Paraceratherium (formerly known as Baluchitherium or Indricotherium), the second largest known land mammal ever to have lived (after Palaeoloxodon namadicus [30]). The rhinos (Rhinocerotidae) emerged in the Middle Eocene; five species survive to the present day.
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.
I'm still puzzled. If Indricotherium is a distinct genus from Paraceratherium, then in which genus should the species transouralicum Pavlova 1922 be placed? If grangeri Osborn 1923 is a synonym of that species, that doesn't, of itself, make Baluchitherium a junior synonym of either genus name. Regardless of taxonomic validity, to which animal ...
Relative sizes of †Paraceratherium, †Elasmotherium, white rhino, Indian rhino, black rhino and Sumatran rhino compared to a human Life restoration of Moropus elatus. One of the largest known perissodactyls, and the second largest land mammal (see Palaeoloxodon namadicus) of all time was the hornless rhino Paraceratherium. The largest ...
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.