Indricotherium is a genus of extinct mammals that lived in
Asia during the late
Oligocene and early
Miocene epoch of the
Tertiary Period (37-32 million years ago). The Indricotherium is the largest land
mammal known. The mean size of adults is estimated to have been 5.2 m (18 ft) tall, 8.2 m (27 ft) in length and a weight of about 15 tons. It was a
herbivore that stripped leaves from trees with its down-pointing, tusk-like upper teeth that occluded forward-pointing lower teeth. It had a long, low, hornless skull and vaulted frontal and nasal bones. Its front teeth were reduced to a single pair of
incisors in either jaw, but they were conical and so large that they looked like small
tusks. The upper incisors pointed straight downwards, while the lower ones jutted outwards. The upper lip was evidently extremely mobile. The neck was very long, the trunk robust, and the limbs long and thick, column-like.
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INDRICOTHERIUM pervum
Indricotherium was the largest land mammal ever, weighing four times that of a modern elephant and twice that of the largest known mammoth. It's head was small compared to its enormous body which was supported by three toes on each foot (much like the rhinoceros of today). Using two teeth on its upper jaw and two on its lower jaw, the Indricotherium was able to graze on trees more than 26ft high. Remains have been found in Baluchitherium (Pakistan) which the animal is sometimes referred to as.
TIME - Oligocene - Tertiary period
RANGE - Asia
DIET - Herbivore (Plants / Trees)
SIZE - 26ft. (8 m) long
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