| Floridaceras | |
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| Fossil vertebrae,Florida Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Subfamily: | †Aceratheriinae |
| Genus: | †Floridaceras Wood, 1964 |
| Species: | †F. whitei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Floridaceras whitei Wood, 1964 | |
Floridaceras is anextinctgenus ofrhinocerotid of theMiocene epoch (earlyHemingfordian), endemic toNorth America, living from around ~20.6–16.3Ma, existing for approximately4.3 million years.
Floridaceras was named by Wood (1964). Its type isFloridaceras whitei. It was assigned toRhinocerotidae by Wood (1964) and Carroll (1988); and toAceratheriinae by Prothero (1998).[1]
The only site known is theThomas Farm Site inGilchrist County, Florida, ~20.6—16.3 Ma.[2]
Floridaceras was of unusually large size for a rhinoceros of the Hemingfordian. It would have been roughly comparable to ablack rhinoceros[3] in size, much larger than contemporaries such as theMenoceras. Like many primitive Aceratheriines, it has no horn, relatively long limbs and brachydont dentition (indicating it was a browser).[4]
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