Lartetotherium
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Lartetotherium Temporal range: Miocene
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| Lartetotherium sansaniense skull | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Genus: |
†Lartetotherium Ginsburg, 1974 |
| Species: |
†L. sansaniense
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†Lartetotherium sansaniense Ginsburg, 1974
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| Synonyms | |
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Dicerorhinus sansaniensis |
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Lartetotherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid that lived during the Miocene in Europe and possibly China.
The type species Lartetotherium sansaniense was a unique cursorial rhinoceros with a distinctly long horn. Its teeth were brachyodont, indicating its diet contained a high quantity of soft plants and a lower proportion of woody material.
A 2023 study reassigned the species Dicerorhinus cixianensis (Chen and Wu, 1976) from the Middle Miocene of Cixian County, Hebei Province, China, to the genus. The species is known from a single partial skull and juvenile mandible, notably small in size.