Dzungariotherium
Extinct genus of indricothere / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dzungariotherium is a genus of paraceratheriid, an extinct group of large, hornless rhinocerotoids, which lived during the middle and late Oligocene of northwest China. The type species D. orgosense was described in 1973 based on fossils—mainly teeth—from Dzungaria in Xinjiang, northwest China.[1]
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Skull of D. orgosense, Tianjin Natural History Museum | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | †Paraceratheriidae |
Genus: | †Dzungariotherium Chiu, 1973 |
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†Dzungariotherium orgosense Chiu, 1973 | |
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