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Dinocerata
| Dinocerata Temporal range:
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| Skeleton of Uintatherium | |
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| Life restoration of Uintatherium. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | †Uintatheriamorpha |
| Order: | †Dinocerata Marsh, 1872 |
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Dinocerata (from the Greek δεινός (deinós), "terrible", and κέρας (kéras), "horn") or Uintatheria,[1] also known as uintatheres, is an extinct order of large herbivorous hoofed mammals with horns and protuberant canine teeth, known from the Paleocene and Eocene of Asia and North America. With body masses ranging up to 4,500 kilograms (9,900 lb) they represent some of the earliest known large mammals.[2]
- ^ Blackwelder, R. E. Classification of the Animal Kingdom. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 1963. p. 71
- ^ Spencer G. Lucas, Robert M. Schoch 19. "Dinocerata" in: Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals (1998)
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