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Dzungariotherium

Dzungariotherium
Temporal range: Oligocene,
Skull of D. orgosense, Tianjin Natural History Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: †Paraceratheriidae
Genus: †Dzungariotherium
Chiu, 1973
Type species
†Dzungariotherium orgosense
Chiu, 1973
Species
  • †D. orgosense Chiu, 1973
  • †D. tienshanense (Chiu, 1962)
  • †D. turfanense Xu & Wang, 1978
Synonyms
  • †Dzungariotherium turfanensis Xu & Wang, 1978
  • †Paraceratherium lipidus Xu & Wang, 1978
  • †P. lepidum Xu & Wang, 1978
  • †P. tienshanensis Chiu, 1962
  • †P. orgosensis (Chiu, 1973)
Skeletal mount (left) of Paraceratherium lepdium, which is possibly a synonym of D. turfanense, Turpan Museum

Dzungariotherium is a genus of paraceratheriid, an extinct group of large, hornless rhinocerotoids, which lived during the middle and late Oligocene of northwest China. The type species D. orgosense was described in 1973 based on fossils—mainly teeth—from Dzungaria in Xinjiang, northwest China.[1]

  1. ^ Zhan-Xiang, Q. (1973). "A new genus of giant rhinoceros from oligocene of Dzungaria, Sinkang" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 11 (in Chinese and English). 2: 182–191.

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