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.’
‘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.’
Origin
Late 19th century from modern Latin Uintatherium, from Uinta(h), the name of a mountain range in Utah, US (where remains were found), + Greek thērion ‘wild beast’.
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