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
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
Aceratherium, from Ancient Greek ἀ-, meaning "-less", κέρας, meaning "horn", and θηρίον, meaning "beast", is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid of the subfamily Aceratheriinae that lived in Eurasia duri
Paraceratherium
…Pakistan, and remains have been found across Eurasia between China and the Balkans. Paraceratherium means "near the hornless beast", in reference to Aceratherium, the genus in which the type species P. bugtiense was originally placed. The exact size of Paraceratherium is unknown because of the incompleteness of…
Aceratherium incisivum 2 skull
Restoration by Heinrich Harder
Late Miocene European landscape, including Aceratherium (background centre) as well as the chalicothere Chalicotherium, the proboscideans (elephant relatives) Gomphotherium angustidens and Zygolophodon turicensis, the swine Parachleuastochoerus, the equine Hipparion, the ground squirrel Spermophilinus, as well as kestrel bustard, little owl and lark