Gaindatherium

Gaindatherium
Temporal range: Early - Mid Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Gaindatherium
Colbert, 1934
Type species
Gaindatherium browni
Colbert, 1934
Species
  • G. browni
  • G. vidali

Gaindatherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid that lived in Asia during the Miocene. It is mainly known from the Siwalik Hills in Pakistan, though its fossils have been found as far west as the Negev desert.[1]

  1. ^ Pandolfi, L. (2021). "Rhinocerotidae from the early Miocene of the Negev (Israel) and implications for the dispersal of early Neogene rhinoceroses". Journal of Paleontology. 95 (6): 1340–1351. Bibcode:2021JPal...95.1340P. doi:10.1017/jpa.2021.64.