Saturday, 29 August 2015
Uintatherium
Name: Uintatherium (Uinta beast - after the Uinta Mountains).
Phonetic: Win-tah-fee-ree-um.
Named By: Joseph Leidy - 1872.
Synonyms: Dinoceras, Ditetrodon, Elachoceras, Octotomus, Tinoceras, Uintamastix, Uintatherium atrox, U. alticeps, U. furcatus, U. latifrons, U. leidianum, U. princeps, U. pressicornis, U. robustum, U. segne, U. vagans.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Dinocerata, Uintatheriidae.
Species: U. anceps (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: 4 meters long.
Known locations: USA.
Time period: Ypresian to Bartonian of the Eocene.
Fossil representation: Many specimens.
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