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Mesaceratherium

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Mesaceratherium
Temporal range: Oligocene
Skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily: †Aceratheriinae
Genus: †Mesaceratherium
Keissig, 1969
Species[1]
  • Mesaceratherium gaimersheimense Heissig, 1969
  • Mesaceratherium paulhiacense Richard, 1937

Mesaceratherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotids.[2]

Palaeoecology

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Dental microwear and mesowear paired with δ13C analysis show that M. paulhiacense was a mixed feeder that fed predominantly on C3 plants.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Mesacerathium". Biolib.
  2. ^ Antoine, P. -O.; Downing, K. F.; Crochet, J. -Y.; Duranthon, F.; Flynn, L. J.; Marivaux, L.; Métais, G.; Rajpar, A. R.; Roohi, G. (2010). "A revision of Aceratherium blanfordi Lydekker, 1884 (Mammalia: Rhinocerotidae) from the Early Miocene of Pakistan: postcranials as a key". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 160: 139–194. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00597.x.
  3. ^ Hullot, Manon; Martin, Céline; Blondel, Cécile; Rössner, Gertrud E. (14 February 2024). "Life in a Central European warm-temperate to subtropical open forest: Paleoecology of the rhinocerotids from Ulm-Westtangente (Aquitanian, Early Miocene, Germany)". The Science of Nature. 111 (1). doi:10.1007/s00114-024-01893-w. ISSN 0028-1042. PMC 11401789. PMID 38353735. Retrieved 14 November 2024 – via Springer Nature Link.


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