rhinocerotic

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Eocene by the genus Amynodon, in which the skull assumes more distinctly the rhinocerotic type.

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  1. Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling or characteristic of a rhinoceros; rhinocerotiform. In these respects the Tapir is Horse-like, but in the following it is more Rhinocerotic. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 310.
  2. Rhinocerotic section an incongruous series of extinct and extant perissodactyl quadrupeds, having teeth substantially like those of the rhinoceros. The families Rhinocerotidæ, Hyracodontidæ, Macraucheniidæ, Chalicotheriidæ, Menodontidæ, and Palæotheriidæ are by Flower ranged in this section.

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  • The total Miocene fauna comprises many genera and species of Catarrhine Apes, of Bats, of Insectivora_; of Arctogaeal types of Rodentia_; of Proboscidea_; of equine, rhinocerotic, and tapirine quadrupeds; of cameline, bovine, antilopine, cervine, and traguline Ruminants; of Pigs and Hippopotamuses; of Viverridoe and Hyoenidoe among other Carnivora_; with Edentata allied to the Aretogaeal Oryeteropus and Manis_, and not to the Austro-Columbian Edentates. —  Discourses Biological and Geological Essays
  • The total Miocene fauna comprises many genera, and species of Catarrhine Apes, of Bats, of Insectivora_; of Arctogaeal types of Rodentia_; of Proboscidea_; of equine, rhinocerotic, and tapirine quadrupeds; of cameline, bovine, antilopine, cervine, and traguline Ruminants; of Pigs and Hippopotamuses; of Viverridae and Hyaenidae among other Carnivora_; with Edentata allied to the Arctogaeal Orycteropus and Manis_, and not to the Austro-Columbian Edentates. —  Critiques and Addresses
  • Eocene by the genus Amynodon, in which the skull assumes more distinctly the rhinocerotic type. —  Darwinism (1889)
 

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