Protitanotherium

Protitanotherium
Temporal range:
Protitanotherium emarginatum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Brontotheriidae
Genus: Protitanotherium
Hatcher, 1895
Species:
P. emarginatum
Binomial name
Protitanotherium emarginatum
Hatcher, 1895
Synonyms
  • Diplacodon emarginatum
    Hatcher, 1895
  • Protitanotherium superbum
    Osborn, 1908
  • Sthenodectes australis
    Wilson, 1977

Protitanotherium is a genus of brontotheres native to North America during the middle Eocene. It contains one species, P. emarginatum, described in 1895 by the American paleontologist John Bell Hatcher.