Dinocerata
| Dinocerata Temporal range: | |
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| Skeleton of Uintatherium | |
| Life restoration of Uintatherium. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | †Uintatheriamorpha |
| Order: | †Dinocerata Marsh, 1872 |
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Dinocerata, from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós), "terrible", and κέρας (kéras), "horn", or Uintatheria, is an extinct order of large herbivorous hoofed mammals with horns and protuberant canine teeth, known from the Paleocene and Eocene of Asia and North America. With body masses ranging up to 4,500 kilograms (9,900 lb) they represent some of the earliest known large mammals.