Teleoceras

Teleoceras
Temporal range: Barstovian-Blancan
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Specimen at the Natural History Museum of LA
1913 T. fossiger illustration by Robert Bruce Horsfall
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily: †Aceratheriinae
Tribe: †Teleoceratini
Genus: †Teleoceras
Hatcher, 1894
Type species
†Teleoceras major
Species
  • †T. aepysoma
  • †T. aginense
  • †T. americanum
  • †T. brachyrhinum
  • †T. hicksi
  • †T. fossiger
  • †T. guymonense
  • †T. major
  • †T. medicornutum
  • †T. meridianum
  • †T. proterum
Synonyms
  • †Mesoceras (Cook, 1930)
  • †Paraphelops Lane, 1927

Teleoceras is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid endemic to North America during the Neogene (Miocene and Pliocene). The name Teleoceras is derived from Greek: "perfect" (teleos) & "horn" (keratos).

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