A new species of Teleoceras described

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A new species of the rhino genus Teleoceras has been described from the Pliocene Gray Fossil Site of eastern Tennessee. It has been given the new species name T. aepysoma ("high bodied"), due to this species being taller than typical members of the species. The species can be differentiated from other species in the genus by its longer front legs and lack of a nasal horn. The researchers suggest that the new species' longer legs enabled it to feed on the shrubs and trees in the forests of its Appalachian environment, which differed from the short grasses that other species in the genus fed on in their Great Plains environment. Here is an image of a cast skeleton of the new species and a link to the paper describing it.



Paper (abstract only): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332786799_A_New_Species_of_Teleoceras_Mammalia_Rhinocerotidae_from_the_Late_Hemphillian_of_Tennessee