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| Teleoceras | |
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| An artist's illustration of Teleoceras | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Genus: | †Teleoceras Hatcher, 1894 |
| Type species | |
| †Teleoceras major | |
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Teleoceras is a rhinoceros from North America, Egypt, and southwestern France during the Miocene and Pliocene epoch.
Description[]
Teleoceras had short legs when compared to other rhinos, which combined with its barreled chest gave it a hippo-like appearance. Some species of Teleoceras, such as T. major, were sexually dimorphic, with males estimated to have weighed around 883.3–1,109.7 kg (1,947–2,446 lb), while females were estimated to have weighed around 840.1 kg (1,731–1,852 lb).[1] Most species of Teleoceras had nasal horns, however some such as T. aepysoma did not.
Paleoecology[]
Studies on the wear of the teeth of Teleoceras suggest that it was either a browser or a mixed browser-grazer.[2]
In popular culture[]
- Teleoceras appeared in the documentary series called Paleoworld in the episode "Are Rhinos Dinos?"
Gallery[]
- ↑ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/abs/sexual-dimorphism-and-paleoecology-in-teleoceras-a-north-american-miocene-rhinoceros/2344BA20150053F6CD325426DB9FAE1B
- ↑ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/abs/microwearmesowear-congruence-and-mortality-bias-in-rhinoceros-massdeath-assemblages/4057DC53BFE2CAE5D9DE20188CA76C3C