Metamynodon
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Metamynodon is an extinct genus of amynodont that lived in North America from the Middle Eocene to the Middle Oligocene. Metamynodon was a large, robust, and semiaquatic animal that displayed a suite
Metamynodon skeleton
Painting of M. planifrons by Heinrich Harder (c. 1920)
Hind limbs, pelvis, and tail of M. planifrons
Painting of M. planifrons by Charles R. Knight (1896)
Paraceratherium
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Paraceratherium is an extinct genus of hornless rhinocerotoids belonging to the family Paraceratheriidae. It is one of the largest terrestrial mammals that has ever existed and lived from the Early to
Metamynodon
…from Dera Bugti in Pakistan. Since 1922, the M. bugtiensis fossils have been variously interpreted as remains of a giant amynodont or as remains of Paraceratherium. Modern reexamination of the fossils revealed that the dentition was misinterpreted by Forster-Cooper, and that M. bugtiensis was an aberrant form of…
Палеонтологический музей Орлова
Fossils named Thaumastotherium and Baluchitherium osborni in 1913, now junior synonyms of P. bugtiense
Preparator Otto Falkenbach with P. transouralicum skull (AMNH 18650), originally assigned to B. grangeri, 1923
1923 skeletal reconstructions of B. grangeri (now P. transouralicum), in rhinoceros-like and slender versions