Aceratherium

Aceratherium
Temporal range:
A. incisivum skull at the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Paris.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily: Aceratheriinae
Genus: Aceratherium
Kaup, 1832
Type species
Aceratherium incisivum
Cuvier, 1822
Species
  • A. depereti Borissiak, 1927
  • A. incisivum
  • A. porpani Deng, Hanta & Jintasakul, 2013

Aceratherium, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (á-), meaning "-less", κέρας (kéras), meaning "horn", and θηρίον (theríon), meaning "beast", is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid of the subfamily Aceratheriinae that lived in Eurasia during the Miocene.