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Indricotherium lived in Asia during the late Oligocene and early Miocene epoch of the Tertiary Period (37-32 million years ago). The Indricotherium is the largest land mammal known. The mean size of adults is estimated to have been 5m (16.5 ft) tall, 8m (26.5 ft) in length and a weight of about 15 tons. It was a herbivore that stripped leaves from trees with its down-pointing, tusk-like upper teeth that occluded forward-pointing lower teeth. It had a long, low, hornless skull and vaulted frontal and nasal bones. Its front teeth were reduced to a single pair of incisors in either jaw, but they were conical and so large that they looked like small tusks. The upper incisors pointed straight downwards, while the lower ones jutted outwards. The upper lips was evidently extremely mobile. The neck was very long, the trunk robust, and the limbs long and thick, column-like.[citation needed] This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ...
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Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ...
Subclasses Allotheria* Order Multituberculata (extinct) Order Volaticotheria (extinct) Order Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Order Triconodonta (extinct) Order Docodonta (extinct) Prototheria Order Monotremata Theria Infraclass Trituberculata (extinct) Infraclass Marsupialia Infraclass Eutheria The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in females for the nourishment of young, from...
Families Equidae Tapiridae Rhinocerotidae The odd-toed ungulates or Perissodactyla are large to very large browsing and grazing mammals with relatively simple stomachs and a large middle toe. ...
Genera Forstercooperia Juxia ?Benaratherium Urtinotherium Indricotherium Paraceratherium The Indricotheriinae are a group of long-limbed hornless rhinoceroses that evolved in the Eocene and continued through to the early Miocene. ...
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World map showing the location of Asia. ...
The Oligocene epoch is a geologic period of time that extends from about 33. ...
The Miocene Epoch is a period of time that extends from about 23. ...
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Subclasses Allotheria* Order Multituberculata (extinct) Order Volaticotheria (extinct) Order Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Order Triconodonta (extinct) Order Docodonta (extinct) Prototheria Order Monotremata Theria Infraclass Trituberculata (extinct) Infraclass Marsupialia Infraclass Eutheria The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in females for the nourishment of young, from...
A deer and two fawns feeding on some foliage A herbivore is often defined as any organism that eats only plants[1]. By that definition, many fungi, some bacteria, many animals, about 1% of flowering plants and some protists can be considered herbivores. ...
Incisors are the first kind of tooth in heterodont mammals. ...
Pacific Walrus at Cape Peirce A tusk is an extremely long tooth of certain mammals that protrudes when the mouth is closed. ...
These giant animals seem to have been limited to central Asia and southernmost parts of Pakistan, for their fossils have not been found elsewhere. Indricotherium inhabited dry grasslands with a few trees, where in congregated in smallherbs. Its type of dentition, its mobile upper lip and its long legs and neck indicate that it lived on the leaves and twigs of tall trees, which it cropped like present-day giraffes.[citation needed] An Inner Mongolia Grassland. ...
Dentition is the development of teeth and their arrangement in the mouth. ...
Binomial name Giraffa camelopardalis Linnaeus, 1758 The Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an even-toed ungulate mammal and the tallest of all land living animal species. ...
The correct Latin names for fossils in this group (the indricotheres) are a matter of uncertainty. It is also widely known as "Baluchitherium" ("beast of Baluchistan"), as it was first discovered in Baluchistan, western Province of Pakistan. This genus name, Baluchitherium Forster Cooper 1913, is now widely regarded as a synonym of his earlier genus Paraceratherium Forster Cooper 1911. However, the animal once widely known as Baluchitherium grangeri Osborn 1923 is now thought to be the same as Indricotherium transouralicum Pavlova 1922. The older species name takes priority. The province of Balochistan (or Baluchistan) (Urdu: بلوچستان) in Pakistan is the largest in the country by geographical area. ...
Sir Clive Forster Cooper (April 3, 1880 - August 23, 1947) was an English paleontologist. ...
Binomial name Paraceratherium bugtiense (Pilgrim, 1908) Paraceratherium bugtiense was a gigantic hornless rhinoceros, whose fossils have been found in the Chitarwata Formation of the Bugti Hills, Balochistan. ...
Henry Fairfield Osborn (August 8, 1857 — November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist and geologist. ...
There is also disagreement over whether Indricotherium Borissiak 1915 is a distinct genus from Paraceratherium. Lucas and Sorbus 1989 argue for synonymy, and consider that the differences between the two are of species level at most, and may even be the result of sexual dimorphism in a single species, with the larger more robust Indricotherium with larger incisors being probably the male, and the more gracile Paraceratherium the female. Others, however, have expressed doubts about this (concerning the interpretation of the shape of the skull). Even if these two do turn out to be distinct genera, they would still be very similar in size and appearance. Female (left) and male Common Pheasant, illustrating the dramatic difference in both color and size between the sexes Sexual dimorphism is the systematic difference in form between individuals of different sex in the same species. ...
Incisors are the first kind of tooth in heterodont mammals. ...
Indricotherium is named after a mythical Russian beast called the "indrik", considered the most powerful creature and the father of the animals. Indrik-Beast (Russian: Индрик-зверь, transliteration:Indrik zvier)is in the Russian lore a miraculous beast, the lord of all animals. ...
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References and external links - Discovery Channel - Answers from Dr. Mikael Fortelius
- Lucas, S. G. & Sobus, J. C., (1989), The Systematics of Indricotheres. 358-378 in Prothero, D. R. & Schoch, R. M., (eds.) 1989: The Evolution of Perissodactyls, Oxford University Press, New York, New York & Oxford, England
- Hyracodontidae: Indricotheriinae - Mikko's Phylogeny Archive - follows Lucas and Sorbus
- sci.bio.paleontology newsgroup 20 July 1999
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