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- authors treat the paraceratheres as a distinct family, Paraceratheriidae (Wang et al. 2016 recover hyracodonts as more basal than paraceratheres). Some authors...
- the brontotheres, palaeotheres, chalicotheres, and the paraceratheres, with the paraceratheres including the largest known land mammals to have ever existed...
- body m****es surp****ing 16 tonnes (35,000 lb), rivalling or exceeding paraceratheres (the otherwise largest known land mammals) in size. The largest extant...
- and therefore represent close relatives of modern rhinoceroses. The paraceratheres are distinguished by the formation of large sharp incisors in their...
- known to have generally coexisted with paraceratheres, and there are no known co-occurrences between paraceratheres and the large deinotheres, which would...
- million and the extinction of other rhinocertoid groups such as the giant paraceratheres. During the early Miocene epoch, around 20 million years ago rhinocerotids...
- P. namadicus possibly the largest land mammal ever, exceeding even paraceratheres in size. However, Larramendi stated that this estimate should be "taken...
- more closely related to crown Rhinocerotoidea than to hyracodonts or paraceratheres. Eggysodonts were ground-dwelling browsers, being largely the size of...
- chiefly of teeth and the bones of the skull. After the extinction of the paraceratheres at the Oligocene-Miocene transition, the deinotheres were (and remained)...
- study, Holbrook instead found the paraceratheres to be outside the hyracodontid group and wrote that the paraceratheres may not be a monophyletic grouping...