noun

• An early hoofed mammal of the Eocene epoch, with a heavy body and a grotesque head with several bony hornlike swellings and long canine teeth.

  Family Uintatheriidae, order Dinocerata, including Uintatherium

  ‘Mammals included many giant yet small-brained rhinoceros-like types - the Asiamerican uintatheres, and brontotheres and the African arsinoitheres.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Many types of large mammals disappear, including all the uintatheres and brontotheres and indricotheres.’
  • ‘Eocene uintatheres sported several blunt pairs of horns that were probably covered by skin.’
  • ‘The large mammals such as uintatheres, pantodonts, and tapiroids may have been stream-side or marsh dwellers.’
  • ‘And next, I want to read about ‘exotic’ fossil mammals - uintatheres and Astrapotherium.’