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Uintatherium, ("Beast of the Uinta Mountains") is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal that lived during the Eocene epoch; two species are currently recognized, U. anceps from the United States during the Early to Middle Eocene, and U. insperatus of Middle to Late Eocene China.[1]
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Skeleton of Uintatherium anceps at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan | |
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Genus: | Uintatherium Leidy, 1872 |
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Dinoceras Marsh, 1872 |
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Their fossils are the largest and most impressive of the finds at the excavation of Fort Bridger in Wyoming, and were a focal point of the Bone Wars between Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope.