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rare crâne de Titanotherium (titanothère) cénozoïque, début de l'éocène, fin de l'oligocène, (53-23 millions d'années, white river formation, région des badlands sud dakota, usa
Description
- 78 x 44 x 50 cm
- 30,42 x 17,16 x 19,5 in
The Titanotherium or Titanothere is a perissodactyl fossil from the lower Oligocene period of North America that could reach 2.5 meters from neck to back (one restoration on one of the horn, perfect condition)
Literature
Cleophas C. O'Harra, The White River Badlands, Bulletin n°13, départment of Geology, Rapis City, South Dakota, November 1920, p. 112 à 117 et Plate n°20.
McKenna, MC and SK Bell, 1997, Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, Columbia University Press, New-York, 631 pp.
Mihlbachler, MC, 2004, Phyloenetic Systematics of the Brontotheriidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla), PH.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 757 pp.
Mihlbachler, MC, SG, Lucas and RJ. Emry, 2004a, The holotype specimen of Menodus giganteus and the "insoluble"problem of Ghadronian brontothere taxonomy. In SG. Lucas, K. Zeigler and PE. Kondrashov (eds), Paleogene Mammals, Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History 26 : 129-136.
Catalogue Note
*périssodactyle : qui a un nombre impair de doigts à chaque patte.
Pièce proche en rapport : crâne d'un squelette de Brontotherium hatcheri au National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.