dinotherium

/ dī′nə-thîr′ē-əm /

Any of various extinct elephantlike mammals of the genus Dinotherium that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Epochs. Characteristic of the dinotherium were tusks that grew downward from its lower jaw.

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The same may be said, though in a relatively lesser degree, of the huge Dinotherium found in the Upper Miocene formation.

To this in the fossil world are added two more genera—the Mastodon and Dinotherium.

In some of the extinct forms, such as Mastodon and especially Dinotherium, the teeth are much more simple.

In Dinotherium they are bilophodont or else are marked by three straight transverse ridges.

It would be more delightful if he could also fetch the mighty glyptodon, the terrible dinotherium, and the stately bandersnatch.

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