Brontotheriidae is a family of extinct mammals belonging to the order Perissodactyla, the order that includes horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs. Superficially, they looked rather like rhinos with …

Brontothere, member of an extinct genus (Brontotherium) of large, hoofed, herbivorous mammals found as fossils in North American deposits of the Oligocene Epoch (36.6 to 23.7 million years …

Marsh even named the largest fossil genus after the Thunder Horse, calling it Brontotherium, the "Thunder Beast". Today, this genus is invalid, but the name Brontothere is still used in …

Nov 10, 2020 · Though Othniel Charles Marsh coined the name Brontotherium, or “thunder beast”, he was inspired by Lakota oral histories of giant beings involved with violent …

Oct 9, 2019 · Here is an in-depth profile of Brontotherium, including this prehistoric mammal's characteristics, behavior, and habitat.

In Asia, a very different kind of brontothere, known as Embolotherium, evolved a similarly gigantic body size. Embolotherium had a single elongate battering ram-like bony process composed of …

Sep 21, 2025 · Brontotherium refers to an extinct genus of large, herbivorous mammals belonging to the family Brontotheriidae. They thrived during the Eocene epoch, around 56 to 34 million …

Some (e.g. Brontotherium) had Y- or V-shaped horns on their noses. The limbs were graviportal. The teeth were primitive, the incisors and a premolar absent in some forms, the molars large, …

The Brontotherium they were referring to was a large Oligocene mammal, distantly related to the rhinoceros, and had a forked "horn" on its snout. Being larger in the males than in the females, …

In October and November 2001, paleontologists from the San Diego Natural History Museum collected beautifully preserved brontothere fossil remains from a construction site near Rancho …