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296 / Cenozoic
Embolotherium
Embolotherium andrewsi
A broad hollow nasal ram rose from the skull of this immense brontothere.
View original image · 1536 × 1024- Time range
- About 36–33 million years ago
- Final stage
- End of the Eocene
- Geographic range
- Dry open woodland · Mongolia and northern China
01 / DEFINITION & ECOLOGY
What was Embolotherium?
Embolotherium (Embolotherium andrewsi) was an extinct organism known from About 36–33 million years ago, with a range in Dry open woodland · Mongolia and northern China.
Life and ecology
Embolotherium was a rhinoceros-sized browser using strong lips and cheek teeth on shrubs and leaves in increasingly open habitats.
02 / DISAPPEARANCE
Why did Embolotherium disappear?
Brontotheres disappeared around the cooling and drying of the late Eocene; the exact cause for Embolotherium is not established.
03 / EVIDENCE
How do scientists know about Embolotherium?
Asian skulls, jaws and partial skeletons define the nasal structure, teeth and body size.
04 / SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Check the source record
Use the scientific name to compare taxonomy, occurrence records and the fossil record. Database coverage and classifications may differ.
05 / REVISION HISTORY
How has this record changed?
- Rewrote an extinction cause that presented environmental or faunal turnover as established; it is now given as context the record does not prove.
- Verified authoritative entity sources and added three responsive reconstruction sizes.
- Initial bilingual species record published.
06 / CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS