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Definition of Dinotherium

Dinotherium
Dinothere Di"no*there, Dinotherium Di`no*the"ri*um, n. [NL. dinotherium, fr. Gr. ? terrible + ? beast.] (Paleon.) A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.

Meaning of Dinotherium from wikipedia

- "beast"). Some authors have on occasion referred to Deinotherium as Dinotherium, following latinization of the first element of the name. Although pronunciation...
- Illustration of remains and a reconstruction of the Dinotherium from the first US edition of William Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise (1837)...
- Sottiswoode & Co. p. 5. Andrews, C.W. (1911). "On a new species of Dinotherium (Dinotherium hobleyi) from British East Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological...
- Later that year, he formally synonymised Diprotodon with Deinotherium as Dinotherium Australe, which he recanted in 1844 after German naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt...
- analysis. The Dinotherium-Museum in Eppelsheim shows original finds of fossil mammals from local deposits. One attraction at the Dinotherium-Museum is the...
- Vol. 49. pp. 365–392. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-10-24. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) "Dinotherium", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica...
- Pikermi, Wagner discovered and described fossil remains of mastodon, Dinotherium, Hipparion, two species of giraffe, antelope and others. His collaboration...
- Paléontologie. Paris: M****on, 1873. Sur la dentition des proboscidiens fossiles (Dinotherium, Mastodontes et Éléphants) et sur la distribution géographique et stratigraphique...
- Lartet, Édouard (1859). "Sur la dentition des proboscidiens fossiles(Dinothérium, Mastodontes et Eléphants) et sur la distribution géographique et stratigraphique...
- to another mammutid Zygolophodon and the gomphothere Gomphotherium), "Dinotherium" (its species eventually reclassified as either Deinotherium or Prodeinotherium)...