Meninatherium

Meninatherium is a poorly understood extinct genus of Asian rhinoceros. It is known only from an Upper Oligocene European type specimen which was destroyed during World War II.[1][2]

Meninatherium
Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Meninatherium
Abel, 1910
Species:
M. telleri
Binomial name
Meninatherium telleri
Abel, 1910

References

  1. Prothero, Donald R. (1986). "The phylogeny of the Rhinocerotoidea (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87 (4): 341–366. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1986.tb01340.x.
  2. Obel, A (1910). "Kritische Untersuchungen über die palaogenen Rhinocerotiden Europas" (PDF). Abhandlungen Kaiserlich-Koenigliche Geologische Reichsanstalt. 20 (3): 1–51.
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