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Menoceras
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Menoceras

Menoceras is an extinct pig-sized rhinoceros that roamed the plains of the North American mid-west during the lower Miocene Epoch. Because of the massive accumulations of fossil bones of this animal, particularly at Agate Springs Nebraska, it seems safe to assume that they lived and died in large herds.


Male Menoceras sported two horns side by side at the tip of the nose, whereas the females had no horns. All other rhino genera have their horns arranged one behind the other.


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The pig-sized Menoceras roamed the plains of the mid-west during the Arikareean land mammal age of the lower Miocene epoch.
Menoceras belonged to the genus Dicerorhinus whose only surviving member is the endangered Sumatran rhino.
This illustration shows a male Menoceras trotting up from the water hole, while a Paleocastor squawks his protest over the tresspass.
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