Uintatheriidae

Uintatheriidae

Taxobox
name = Uintatheriidae



image_width = 240px
image_caption ="Uintatherium"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
superordo = Laurasiatheria?
ordo = Dinocerata
familia = Uintatheriidae
subdivision_ranks = Genus
subdivision = All extinct, see text

The Uintatheriidae is a family of extinct mammals that includes "Uintatherium". They belong to the order Dinocerata, one of several extinct orders of primitive mammals that are sometimes united in the Condylarthra.

pecies

Family Uintatheriidae
*"Prodinoceras"
*"Bathyopsis"
*"Uintatherium"
*"Tetheopsis"
*"Eobasileus"
*?"Gobiatherium"

Because the skulls of the species of "Gobiatherium" lack the diagnostic ossicones and fang-tusks of other uintatheres, the genus is sometimes placed within its own family, "Gobiatheriidae."


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