| Protaceratherium | |
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| P. minutum skeleton | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Genus: | †Protaceratherium Abel, 19101 |
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Protaceratherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid from the Oligocene and Miocene of Eurasia.2
It was a primitive, lightly built rhinoceros that was adapted to running.3
Palaeoecology
Analysis of dental δ13C values combined with dental mesowear and microwear show that P. minutum fed primarily on C3 plants and that it consumed less abrasive plants than the contemporary Mesaceratherium paulhiacense.4
References
References
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- Lihoreau, F.; Ducrocq, S. P.; Antoine, P. O.; Vianey-Liaud, M.; Rafaÿ, S. B.; Garcia, G. R.; Valentin, X. (2009). "First complete skulls of Elomeryx crispus (Gervais, 1849) and of Protaceratherium albigense (Roman, 1912) from a new Oligocene locality near Moissac (SW France)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (1): 242–253. Bibcode:2009JVPal..29..242L. doi:10.1671/039.029.0114. S2CID 86632471.
- Agustí, Jordi; Antón, Mauricio (2002). Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe. Columbia University Press. p. 96. ISBN 9780231116411.
- 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) 10. Bibcode:2024SciNa.111...10H. doi:10.1007/s00114-024-01893-w. ISSN 0028-1042. PMC 11401789. PMID 38353735.