Rhinotitan

Rhinotitan (giant snout) is an extinct genus of brontothere from the Eocene of China.

Rhinotitan
Temporal range:
Skeletal mount, Paleozoological Museum of China.
Scientific classification
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

It weighed 1.5 tons. It ate many plants amongst herbs and fruits that were available in the Eocene era.

References
  1. Rhinotitan at fossilworks.org
  • Classification of Mammals by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell


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