-
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...
- 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...
- 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 the
extinction of
other rhinocerotoid 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)...
-
exceeding the
estimates for the
otherwise largest known land mammals, the
paraceratheres. However, this
estimate is
highly speculative and the
author suggested...
