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Brontotherium

Genus of mammals (fossil)

Fossil taxon

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Brontotherium (thunder beast) is an extinct genus of prehistoric perissodactyl mammal of the family Brontotheriidae, a relative of rhinoceroses and related to horses. It could be found in North America during the Eocene epoch. It measured 2.5 meters in height at the shoulders and resembled a rhinoceros with a forked horn, similar to a Y, with the tips not sharp but rounded.

Text: Portuguese Wikipedia, machine translation, CC BY-SA 4.0. · Image: Postdlf (CC BY-SA 3.0) ·

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