Mesaceratherium

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Oligocene

| image = Mesaceratherium.JPG

| image_caption = Skull

| taxon = Mesaceratherium

| authority = Keissig, 1969

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision_ref = {{cite web |title=Mesacerathium |url=https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1189458/ |website=Biolib}}

| subdivision =

Mesaceratherium gaimersheimense Heissig, 1969
Mesaceratherium paulhiacense Richard, 1937

}}

Mesaceratherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotids.{{cite journal | last1 = Antoine | first1 = P. -O. | last2 = Downing | first2 = K. F. | last3 = Crochet | first3 = J. -Y. | last4 = Duranthon | first4 = F. | last5 = Flynn | first5 = L. J. | last6 = Marivaux | first6 = L. | last7 = Métais | first7 = G. | last8 = Rajpar | first8 = A. R. | last9 = Roohi | first9 = G. | year = 2010 | title = A revision of Aceratherium blanfordi Lydekker, 1884 (Mammalia: Rhinocerotidae) from the Early Miocene of Pakistan: postcranials as a key | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume = 160 | pages = 139–194 | doi = 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00597.x| doi-access = free }}

Palaeoecology

Dental microwear and mesowear paired with δ¹³C analysis show that M. paulhiacense was a mixed feeder that fed predominantly on C₃ plants.{{Cite journal |last=Hullot |first=Manon |last2=Martin |first2=Céline |last3=Blondel |first3=Cécile |last4=Rössner |first4=Gertrud E. |date=14 February 2024 |title=Life in a Central European warm-temperate to subtropical open forest: Paleoecology of the rhinocerotids from Ulm-Westtangente (Aquitanian, Early Miocene, Germany) |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-024-01893-w |journal=The Science of Nature |language=en |volume=111 |issue=1 |doi=10.1007/s00114-024-01893-w |issn=0028-1042 |pmc=11401789 |pmid=38353735 |access-date=14 November 2024 |via=Springer Nature Link}}

References

Category:Miocene rhinoceroses

Category:Miocene mammals of Asia

Category:Fossil taxa described in 1969