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| - Uintatherium was a large mammal that lived during the ice ages.
- The Uintatherium is a prehistoric rhino-like creature featured in Turok: Evolution. It is rarely seen in the single player, but it is encountered in the "Zoo" mini-level.
- thumb|400pxSignifica bestia de Uinta. El nombre se debe a las montañas donde fue descubierto. Fue el primer mamífero realmente grande. Tenía tres pares de cuernos, como bultos o protuberancias óseas, en la cara y en su gigantesca cabeza. Se cree que sólo los machos tenían otras armas: dos largos colmillos o dientes caninos, de unos 15 centímetros de longitud. Quizás utilizaban estos caninos para combatir entre ellos por las hembras y el territorio, como los hipopótamos modernos. Probablemente usaban los seis cuernos para defenderse y para convencer a las hembras en los duelos entre machos. Tenía anchos dientes como muelas en los carrillos para masticar plantas. Alcanzaba el tamaño de los rinocerontes actuales: 3 metros y medio de longitud. Vivió hace unos 55 millones de años, a finales del
- Uintatherium was a large browsing animal. Its most unusual feature was the skull, which is both large and strongly built, but simultaneously flat and concave: this feature is rare and not regularly characteristic of any other known mammal except in some brontotheres. Its cranial cavity was exceptionally small due the walls of the cranium being exceedingly thick. The weight of the skull was mitigated by numerous sinuses permeating the walls of the cranium, like those in an elephant's skull.
- With a length of about 4 m (13 ft), 1.70 m (5.6 ft) tall and a weight up to 2.25 tons, they were similar to today's rhinoceros both in size and in shape, although they are not closely related.[2] Their fossils are the largest and most impressive of the finds at the excavation of Fort Bridger in Wyoming, and were a focal point of the Bone Wars between Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. Fossils of U. anceps have been found in the Bridger and Wakashie rock formations, in the states of Wyoming and in Utah near the Uinta Mountains, which are commemorated in the generic name. An almost intact skull of U. insperatus was found in the lower part of the Lushi Formation of the Lushi Basin in Henan Province, China.[1]
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| - thumb|400pxSignifica bestia de Uinta. El nombre se debe a las montañas donde fue descubierto. Fue el primer mamífero realmente grande. Tenía tres pares de cuernos, como bultos o protuberancias óseas, en la cara y en su gigantesca cabeza. Se cree que sólo los machos tenían otras armas: dos largos colmillos o dientes caninos, de unos 15 centímetros de longitud. Quizás utilizaban estos caninos para combatir entre ellos por las hembras y el territorio, como los hipopótamos modernos. Probablemente usaban los seis cuernos para defenderse y para convencer a las hembras en los duelos entre machos. Tenía anchos dientes como muelas en los carrillos para masticar plantas. Alcanzaba el tamaño de los rinocerontes actuales: 3 metros y medio de longitud. Vivió hace unos 55 millones de años, a finales del Paleoceno y principios del Eoceno, donde hoy se alzan las montañas Uinta, en Colorado; y en las llanuras de Utah, EE.UU. Los mamíferos, que en la era de los dinosaurios estaban representados por especies no mayores que los ratones, al empezar la era cenozoica habías asumido también formas mastodónticas, y, además, aumentando en número suplantaron a los reptiles en su supremacia sobre toda la Tierra. Durante el eoceno, en los frondosos bosques que en aquel tiempo cubrían NorteAmérica, vivió el Uintatherium; su nombre deriva de los montes Uinta, en Utah, donde se encontraron los primeros esqueletos. Como si no bastasen sus largas uñas de 20 centímetros y cortantes como puñales para hacer amenazador su aspecto, el Uintatherium tenía, además, tres pares de cuernos. El macizo cuerpo, más volumiso que el de un rinoceronte, se asentaba torpemente sobre sus patazas. Nuestra bestezuela debía ser bastante tonta, pues, pese a su mole, su cerebro no era mayor que el de un perrito... Además de los largos caninos que exhibía a los lados de la boca, el Uintatherium tenía también grandes molares para triturar la hierba, hojas y cortezas: efectivamente, a pesar de su feroz apariencia, su dieta era vegetariana. ¿Sabíais que las primeras especies de Uintatherium vivieron en el paleoceno y no superaban la talla de un cerdo? ¿Que este mamífero se extinguió a fines del eoceno, sin dejar descendientes? Dado su minúsculo cerebro, los Uintatherium vivían probablemente según instintos simples y reflejos. Por ello se espantaban y enfadaban por nada y cargaban con la cabeza baja, lo mismo que hacen tal vez los rinocerontes, que se precipitan contra cualquier cosa. También la defensa del territorio o la conquista de las hembras debían provocar luchas furiosas entre los machos de estos enormes mamíferos. A veces, un Uintatherium que se había acercado a beber a un pozal de agua, se hundía por su mismo peso en el fango y, pese a sus esfuerzos, no conseguía liberarse. Así atrapado, era presa fácil de los carnívoros, como los Hyenadon. Al envejecer, el Uintatherium se volvía débil y lento de refrejos; por todo ello le resultaba difícil defenderse de sus enemigos. Los más peligrosos eran los grandes cocodrilos, que lo atacaban cuando se iba a abrevar a los ríos. Categoría:Mamíferos Categoría:Placentarios Categoría:Dinocerados Categoría:Fauna del Eoceno
- Uintatherium was a large browsing animal. Its most unusual feature was the skull, which is both large and strongly built, but simultaneously flat and concave: this feature is rare and not regularly characteristic of any other known mammal except in some brontotheres. Its cranial cavity was exceptionally small due the walls of the cranium being exceedingly thick. The weight of the skull was mitigated by numerous sinuses permeating the walls of the cranium, like those in an elephant's skull. The large upper canines might have acted as formidable defensive weapons, and superficially resembled the canines of sabre tooth cats. Sexually dimorphic, the teeth were larger in males than in females. However they also might have used them to pluck the aquatic plants from marshes that seem to have comprised their diet. The skulls of the males bore six prominent knob-like ossicones which grew from the frontal region of the skull. The function of these structures is unknown. They may have been of use in defense and/or sexual display. Uintatherium went extinct about 37 million years ago, presumably due to climate change and competition with perissodactyls such as brontotheres and rhinos. A cast of a Uintatherium skeleton is on display at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park. Uintatherium was an extinct genus of large, hoofed mammals found as fossils in North America and Asia in terrestrial deposits that date from the middle of the Eocene Epoch (55.8–33.9 million years ago). The size of a modern rhinoceros, Uintatherium was among the largest animals of its time. The limbs were strongly constructed to support the massive body. Three pairs of bony growths, or protuberances, were present on the skull, and the anterior pair may have supported prominent horns. The teeth were also distinctive: males of the genus possessed large, powerful canines; incisors were absent in the upper jaw but present in the lower jaw.
- Uintatherium was a large mammal that lived during the ice ages.
- The Uintatherium is a prehistoric rhino-like creature featured in Turok: Evolution. It is rarely seen in the single player, but it is encountered in the "Zoo" mini-level.
- With a length of about 4 m (13 ft), 1.70 m (5.6 ft) tall and a weight up to 2.25 tons, they were similar to today's rhinoceros both in size and in shape, although they are not closely related.[2] Their fossils are the largest and most impressive of the finds at the excavation of Fort Bridger in Wyoming, and were a focal point of the Bone Wars between Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. Fossils of U. anceps have been found in the Bridger and Wakashie rock formations, in the states of Wyoming and in Utah near the Uinta Mountains, which are commemorated in the generic name. An almost intact skull of U. insperatus was found in the lower part of the Lushi Formation of the Lushi Basin in Henan Province, China.[1] Uintatherium was a large browsing animal. Its most unusual feature was the skull, which is both large and strongly built, but simultaneously flat and concave: this feature is rare and not regularly characteristic of any other known mammal except in some brontotheres. Its cranial cavity was exceptionally small due the walls of the cranium being exceedingly thick. The weight of the skull was mitigated by numerous sinuses permeating the walls of the cranium, like those in an elephant's skull. The large upper canines might have acted as formidable defensive weapons, and superficially resembled the canines of saber-toothed cats. Sexually dimorphic, the teeth were larger in males than in females. However, they also might have used them to pluck the aquatic plants from marshes that seem to have comprised their diet. The skulls of the males bore six prominent knob-like ossicones that grew from the frontal region of the skull. The function of these structures is unknown. They may have been of use in defense and/or sexual display. Uintatherium went extinct about 37 million years ago, presumably due to climate change and competition with perissodactyls, such as brontotheres and rhinos. A cast of a Uintatherium skeleton is on display at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park. The skeleton of Uintatherium is also on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
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