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'''Titanotheres''' are large, thick-skinned [[quadruped]]s. They are also known as Brontotheres:
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'''Titanotheres''' are large, thick-skinned [[quadruped]]s.
  
BRONTOTHERIUM
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==In Real Life==
The term "brontothere", meaning thunder - beast,
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was a product of Sioux Indian mythology. The
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As the encyclopedia says, titanotheres were extinct relatives of the rhinocerous and lived during the Oligocene. They lived in areas that are currently in the United States. They are also known as Brontotheres.
Brontotherium they were referring to was a large
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Oligocene mammal, distantly related to the
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Unlike modern rhinos, titanotheres had a forked horn.
rhinoceros, and had a forked "horn" on its snout.
 
Being larger in the males than in the females, this
 
horn was probably used in fighting, much like those
 
of deer and antelope today. The brontotherium died
 
out as the great forests were replaced by grasslands
 
where horses, rhinos and other mammals became more
 
abundant.
 
 
TIME - 37.5 - 32MYA, Early Oligocene epoch
 
RANGE - USA - NV, CA (Death Valley), SD, ND
 
SIZE - These creatures reached a height of up to
 
8 ft (2.5 m) at the shoulder.
 
WEIGHT - 2 US tons
 
  
 
== Encyclopedia entry ==
 
== Encyclopedia entry ==

Revision as of 09:14, 11 December 2019


Titanotheres are large, thick-skinned quadrupeds.

In Real Life

As the encyclopedia says, titanotheres were extinct relatives of the rhinocerous and lived during the Oligocene. They lived in areas that are currently in the United States. They are also known as Brontotheres.

Unlike modern rhinos, titanotheres had a forked horn.

Encyclopedia entry

Extinct rhinos include a variety of forms, the most
spectacular being _Baluchitherium_ from the Oligocene of
Asia, which is the largest known land mammal. Its body, 18
feet high at the shoulder and carried on massive limbs,
allowed the 4-foot-long head to browse on the higher branches
of trees. Though not as enormous, the titanotheres of the
early Tertiary were also large perissodactyls, _Brontotherium_
of the Oligocene being 8 feet high at the shoulder.

[ Prehistoric Animals, by Barry Cox ]

See also

http://www.prehistory.com/bronto.htm

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