Uintatheriidae
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The Uintatheriidae is a family of extinct mammals that includes Uintatherium. They belong to the order Dinocerata, one of several extinct orders of primitive mammals that are sometimes united in the Condylarthra.
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Family Uintatheriidae
- Prodinoceras
- Bathyopsis
- Uintatherium
- Tetheopsis
- Eobasileus
- ?Gobiatherium
Because the skulls of the species of Gobiatherium lack the diagnostic ossicones and fang-tusks of other uintatheres, the genus is sometimes placed within its own family, "Gobiatheriidae."
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