Urtinotherium Chow and Chiu 1963 (odd-toed ungulate)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae

Full reference: M. Chow and C.-S. Chiu. 1963. New genus of Giant Rhinoceros from Oligocene of Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 7(3):230-239

Parent taxon: Paraceratheriinae according to H. Wang et al. 2016

See also Carroll 1988, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Qiu and Wang 2007 and Radinsky 1966

Sister taxa: Aralotherium, Dzungariotherium, Juxia, Paraceratherium, Pristinotherium, Turpanotherium, Benaratherium

Subtaxa: Urtinotherium intermedium Urtinotherium parvum

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Eocene of China (11 collections), Mongolia (1)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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