Protaceratherium

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammal}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Late Oligocene - Early Miocene

| image = Protaceratherium minutum restoration.jpg

| image_caption = P. minutum skeleton

| taxon = Protaceratherium

| authority = Abel, 1910{{cite web |title=Protaceratherium |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43219 |website=Fossilworks}}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• Protaceratherium albigense
• Protaceratherium minutum

}}

Protaceratherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid from the Oligocene and Miocene of Eurasia.{{Cite journal | last1 = Lihoreau | first1 = F. | last2 = Ducrocq | first2 = S. P. | last3 = Antoine | first3 = P. O. | last4 = Vianey-Liaud | first4 = M. | last5 = Rafaÿ | first5 = S. B. | last6 = Garcia | first6 = G. R. | last7 = Valentin | first7 = X. | title = First complete skulls of Elomeryx crispus (Gervais, 1849) and of Protaceratherium albigense (Roman, 1912) from a new Oligocene locality near Moissac (SW France) | doi = 10.1671/039.029.0114 | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 29 | pages = 242–253 | year = 2009 | issue = 1 | bibcode = 2009JVPal..29..242L | s2cid = 86632471 }}

It was a primitive, lightly built rhinoceros that was adapted to running.{{cite book |last1=Agustí |first1=Jordi |last2=Antón |first2=Mauricio |title=Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe |date=2002 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231116411 |page=96}}

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