Aceratherium

Aceratherium
Temporal range: Miocene
A. incisivum skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily: †Aceratheriinae
Genus: †Aceratherium
Kaup, 1832
Type species
†Aceratherium incisivum
Cuvier, 1822
Species
  • A. depereti Borissiak, 1927
  • A. incisivum
  • A. porpani[1] Deng, Hanta & Jintasakul, 2013

Aceratherium (Greek: "without (a) horn" (keratos), "beast" (therion)[2]) is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid of the subfamily Aceratheriinae that lived in Eurasia during the Miocene.

  1. ^ Tao Deng; Rattanaphorn Hanta & Pratueng Jintasakul (2013). "A new species of Aceratherium (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from the late Miocene of Nakhon Ratchasima, northeastern Thailand". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (4): 977–985. Bibcode:2013JVPal..33..977D. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.748058. S2CID 84438829.
  2. ^ "Glossary. American Museum of Natural History". Archived from the original on 20 November 2021.