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Uintatherium
Extinct genus of mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Uintatherium ("Beast of the Uinta Mountains") is an extinct genus of herbivorous dinoceratan mammal that lived during the Eocene epoch. Two species are currently recognized: U. anceps from the United States during the Early to Middle Eocene (56–38 million years ago) and U. insperatus of Middle to Late Eocene (48–34 million years ago) China.[1]
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Cast of the skeleton, French National Museum of Natural History in the Paris | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Dinocerata |
Family: | †Uintatheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Uintatheriinae |
Genus: | †Uintatherium Leidy, 1872 |
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Genus synonymy
Synonyms of U. anceps
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