Titanothere
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| Difficulty | 13 |
| Attacks |
Claw 2d8 |
| Base level | 12 |
| Base experience | 267 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 6 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 2650 |
| Nutritional value | 650 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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A titanothere:
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| Reference | monst.c#line774 |
Titanotheres are large, thick-skinned quadrupeds. They are also known as Brontotheres:
BRONTOTHERIUM The term "brontothere", meaning thunder - beast, was a product of Sioux Indian mythology. The Brontotherium they were referring to was a large Oligocene mammal, distantly related to the 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
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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