The Hyracodontidae are an extinct family of rhinocerotoids endemic to North America, Europe, and Asia during the Eocene through early Oligocene, living...
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Rhinoceros (section Hyracodontidae)
evolved in the late Eocene, namely the Hyracodontidae, Amynodontidae, Paraceratheriidae and Rhinocerotidae. Hyracodontidae, also known as "running rhinos",...
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Paleocene. They included four extinct families, the Amynodontidae, the Hyracodontidae, the Paraceratheriidae, and the Eggysodontidae. The only extant family...
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horns on the nose. The Amynodontidae were hippo-like, aquatic animals. Hyracodontidae developed long limbs and long necks that were most pronounced in the...
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families; Amynodontidae, Rhinocerotidae ("true rhinoceroses"), and Hyracodontidae. The diversity within the rhinocerotoid group was much larger in prehistoric...
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Europe or Asia. In southeastern Europe, Eocene finds of Amynodontidae, Hyracodontidae, Brontotheriidae, and Anthracotheriidae have affinities to Asian, but...
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been primarily browsers. Although considered a subfamily of the family Hyracodontidae by some authors, recent authors treat the paraceratheres as a distinct...
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together as the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, evolved in the late Eocene: Hyracodontidae, Amynodontidae and Rhinocerotidae, thus creating an explosion of diversity...
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extinct genus of gigantic hornless rhinoceros-like mammals of the family Hyracodontidae. List of fossil sites Vickers-Rich, Patricia & Rich, Thomas Hewett (1993);...
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†Lophialetidae Tapiridae Superfamily Rhinocerotoidea †Hyrachyidae (Hyracodontidae?) †Hyracodontidae †Amynodontidae (Rhinocerotidae?) Rhinocerotidae Infraorder...
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