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Teleoceras

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Description
Discovery
Notes
References
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{{Automatic Taxobox
| name = Teleoceras
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Early Miocene|Early Pliocene|Early Miocene–Early Pliocene^[1]}}
| image = Natural History Museum of LA Teleoceras.jpg
| image_caption = Specimen at the Natural History Museum of LA
| taxon = Teleoceras
| authority = Hatcher, 1894
| type_species = †Teleoceras major
| subdivision_ranks = Species^[2]
| subdivision =

†T. aginense
†T. americanum
†T. brachyrhinum
†T. hicksi
†T. fossiger
†T. guymonense
†T. major
†T. medicornutum
†T. meridianum
†T. proterum

|synonyms =

†Mesoceras (Cook, 1930)^[3]
†Paraphelops Lane, 1927^[4]

}}Teleoceras is an extinct genus of grazing rhinoceros. It lived in North America, Egypt and southwestern France during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, from around 16 to 2.6 million years ago.^[5]^[6]

Description

Teleoceras had much shorter legs than modern rhinos, and a barrel chest, making its build more like that of a hippopotamus than a modern rhino. Like the hippo, it was probably also semi-aquatic. Teleoceras had a single small nasal horn.^[7] It was a quite heavy animal, reaching 1.81 tons.{{cn|date=February 2019}}{{clarify|date=November 2018|reason = long, short or metric ton?}}

Discovery

Teleoceras is the most common fossil in the Ashfall Fossil Beds of Nebraska. In fact, its remains were so numerous and concentrated that the building housing the greatest concentration of Ashfall fossils is called the "Rhino Barn". Most of the skeletons are preserved in a nearly complete state. One extraordinary specimen includes the remains of a Teleoceras calf trying to suckle from its mother.^[8] This animal was featured in the episodes "Are Rhinos Dinos?" and "Dawn Of The Cats" of the Paleoworld series.

Notes

1. ^Prothero, 2005, pp. 189-194.
2. ^Prothero, 2005, p. 94.
3. ^McKenna & Bell, 1997, p. 483.
4. ^Prothero, 2005, p. 122.
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=43226&is_real_user=1|title=PaleoBiology Database: Teleoceras, basic info}}
6. ^(Prothero, 2005)
7. ^{{cite book |editor=Palmer, D.|year=1999 |title= The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals|publisher= Marshall Editions|location=London|page= 265|isbn= 1-84028-152-9}}
8. ^Ashfall Fossil Beds

References

McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. {{ISBN|0-231-11013-8}}
Prothero, Donald R. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 218 pp. {{ISBN|0-521-83240-3}}

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