Dinocerata
Dinocerata (from the Greek δεινός (deinós), "terrible", and κέρας (kéras), "horn") is an extinct order of plant-eating hoofed mammals with horns and protuberant canine teeth.
| Dinocerata Temporal range: | |
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| Uintatherium. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Mesaxonia |
| Order: | †Dinocerata Marsh, 1872 |
| Families and genera | |
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Eobasileus (left) and Uintatherium (right).
Classification
A 2015 phylogenetic study recovered Dinocerata as closely related to Carodnia, making them part of the Euungulata assemblage.[1]
Taxonomy and phylogeny
Most experts place the known genera of Dinocerata within one family, Uintatheriidae, and split it into two subfamilies, Uintatheriinae and Gobiatheriinae. Some experts prefer to split Uintatheriidae into three families, with Gobiatherium placed in the monogeneric family Gobiatheriidae, the other Eocene genera in Uintatheriidae proper, and the Paleocene genera Prodinoceras and Probathyopsis placed in the family "Prodinoceratidae".
- Laurasiatheria
- Ungulatomorpha?
- Order Dinocerata
- Family Uintatheriidae
- Subfamily Gobiatheriinae
- Subfamily Uintatheriinae
- Family Uintatheriidae
References
- Burger, Benjamin J. (2015). "The systematic position of the saber-toothed and horned giants of the Eocene: the Uintatheres (Order Dinocerata)" (PDF). Utah State University Uintah Basin Campus, Vernal, UT, 84078, United States Of America.
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