Protaceratherium

Protaceratherium is an extinct genus of rhinoceros from the Oligocene and Miocene of Eurasia.[2]

Protaceratherium
Temporal range: Late Oligocene - Early Miocene
P. minutum skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: †Protaceratherium
Abel, 1910[1]
Species
  • Protaceratherium albigense
  • Protaceratherium minutum

It was a primitive, lightly built rhinoceros that was adapted to running.[3]

Jaw

References
  1. "Protaceratherium". Fossilworks.
  2. Lihoreau, F.; Ducrocq, S. P.; Antoine, P. O.; Vianey-Liaud, M.; Rafaÿ, S. B.; Garcia, G. R.; Valentin, X. (2009). "First complete skulls of Elomeryx crispus (Gervais, 1849) and of Protaceratherium albigense (Roman, 1912) from a new Oligocene locality near Moissac (SW France)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29: 242. doi:10.1671/039.029.0114.
  3. Agustí, Jordi; Antón, Mauricio (2002). Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe. Columbia University Press. p. 96. ISBN 9780231116411.


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