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  Indricotherium - The Beast of Baluchistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
According to paleontologists, Indricotherium reached a height of 5.2 meters at the shoulder.
I am 1.78 meters tall, so Indricotherium was three times taller than me. It was, as far as is known, the biggest land mammal which ever lived.
Indricotherium was in fact a relative of the rhinoceros.
www4.vc-net.ne.jp /~klivo/gen/indricotherium.htm   (433 words)

  
 Ocellated » Indricotherium - Animal of the Week
In Russian mythology, the indrik was the most powerful of animals —; the lord of all animals —; believed to rule the seas and shake the earth when he came down from his holy mountain.
Judging from its teeth, Indricotherium was a herbivore and is believed to have stripped the vegetation off trees with its high reach.
Indricotherium is placed in the Order Perissodactyla —; the odd-toed ungulates — and the family Hyracodontidae, a sister family to Rhinocerotidae (the family that rhinoceroses belong to).
www.ocellated.com /2006/01/09/indricotherium   (842 words)

  
 Indricotherium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indricotherium lived in Asia during the late Oligocene and early Miocene epoch of the Tertiary Period, The Indricotherium is known to have been the largest land mammal ever.
Lucas and Sorbus 1989 argue for synonymy, and consider that the differences between the two are of species level at most, and may even be the result of sexual dimorphism in a single species, with the larger more robust Indricotherium with larger incisors being probably the male, and the more gracile Paraceratherium the female.
Indricotherium is named after a mythical Russian beast called the "indrik", considered the most powerful creature and the father of the animals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baluchitherium   (407 words)

  
 Paleocraft Indricotherium
The Indricotherium, also know as Baluchitherium and Paracaratherium, was a gigantic long-necked, hornless rhinoceros that lived in Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene eras (from about 37 million to 25 million years ago).
Although estimates of its overall dimensions vary, most paleontologists agree that the Indricotherium was the largest land mammal, known from the fossil record, to have ever walked the earth.
The Indricotherium's tall legs and long neck would have made it perfectly suited for browsing the otherwise untouched green leaves and twigs at the tops of trees.
www.paleocraft.com /Indricotherium2.html   (589 words)

  
 James G. Acker Apr0293 02:20PM Lighter paleomammals Just to show you that Ted Holden occas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
"Indricotherium", a rhinoceros 5 metres high that lived in Asia about 30 million years ago, was thought to have weighed up to 30 tonnes.
Mikael Fortelius of the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki and John Kappelman of the University of Texas at Austin say the very largest Indricotherium, which is also known as baluchitherium, may have weighed between 15 and 20 tonnes, making it about as heavy as the largest mammoth.
For instance, the original high estimate of the mass of Indricotherium was based on a comparison with the modern rhinoceros.
www.skepticfiles.org /evolut/smallerm.htm   (437 words)

  
 baluchitherium and Indricotherium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Baluchitherium (now called Indricotherium) is a large, extinct, hornless rhinoceros.
It was one of the largest land mammals.
Indricotherium is an extinct, hornless rhinoceros with relatively long legs.
www.baloch2000.org /history/baluchitherium.htm   (269 words)

  
 InfoHub - Indricotherium - The Largest Land Mammal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Indricotherium was 18 feet (5.5 m.) tall and about 26 feet (8 m.) long.
Fossils of Indricotherium have been found in the Baluchistan province of Pakistan.
Fossils of Indricotherium have only been found on the Asian continent; it apparently only lived in Asia.
www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?s=d9a8a92dd59b7eeb875f59df29ebc67b&t=2950   (158 words)

  
 Oligocene Fauna Eusmilus Indricotherium Entelodon Hyaenodon Chalicotherium
Walking with Prehistoric Beasts features (WWPB) has Indricotherium as a solitary giant living in a relatively arid environment.
The later desiccation as India collided with Asia probably reduced the food supply such a large animal needed.
Indricotherium was the largest land mammal ever to live.
www.dinosaurcollector.150m.com /Oligocene.html   (831 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Now, he is adding a series of dinosaurs to his portfolio, and as you can see his work on the T.rex is equal to any out there.
With a background in graphic design and illustration and after several years as a commercial artist, working mainly with computers, I decided to pursue a more hands-on media in the realm of 3-D. Using Super Sculpey, I found the prehistoric world as well as that of science fiction to be my favorite subjects for sculpting.
Indricotherium belongs to the Family Hydracodontidae: a group of about a dozen hornless rhinos.
www.indyrad.iupui.edu /public/jrafert/Cooper/seancoop.htm   (814 words)

  
 Creek Running North: Friday extinct herring blogging!
The brontotheres were widespread in the northern hemisphere, with a fair number found in Mongolia and (literally) tons in Wyoming.
(Indricotherium is often said to have been discovered by swashbuckling paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews on one of his Central Asian expeditions, but the species was in fact first found and named by Sir Clive Foster Cooper in 1911.
Indricotherium (known as Paraceratherium to some) was not a brontothere...
www.faultline.org /place/pinolecreek/archives/002179.html   (1269 words)

  
 Prehistoric Animal-Indricotherium-Oligocene Epoch (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Indricotherium is in the art collection of Dinosaur Corporation.
Indricotherium Art Pictures in 14" x 17" Museum Quality Frames with Double Matted in Glass.
The mission of Dinosaur Corporation® is to support education and heighten the awareness of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
store.dinosaurcorporation.com.cob-web.org:8888 /tertiary.html   (71 words)

  
 Indricotherium - Oligocene epoch
Indricotherium was the largest land mammal ever, weighing four times that of a modern elephant and twice that of the largest known mammoth.
It's head was small compared to its enormous body which was supported by three toes on each foot (much like the rhinoceros of today).
Using two teeth on its upper jaw and two on its lower jaw, the Indricotherium was able to graze on trees more than 26ft high.
www.prehistory.com /indricth.htm   (227 words)

  
 Dino Science Forum - May 2001: CoolDinos.com
I don't think T.Rex would want to mess with Indricotherium, that think is like a horse the size of a small sauropod, and a mule-kick from a leg that size would certainly break a few ribs or seriously injure a T.Rex.
But of course, if T.Rex managed to get Indricotherium by the neck, the 3-ton force at the tip of each of the teeth would rapidly slice through the mammamilian skin and sever many vital blood vessels, and that would be quite the end of Indricotherium.
And I think hit and run would be good for Indricotherium, and T.Rex would have used that if he didn't know the neck bite or the situtation prevented him from doing that.
www.zoomschool.com /dinotalk/dinoscienceforum/old/May01.shtml   (2069 words)

  
 PALEOECOLOGY OF THE CENOZOIC RHINO FAUNA OF LINXIA BASIN, GANSU, NW CHINA, FROM CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPES IN TOOTH ...
O values suggest that Indricotherium was more restricted to a closed habitat.
Because Indricotherium was very large, it probably required a shaded or wet habitat to keep its body cooled; and 3) Chilotherium and Dicerorhinus coexisted at 6 Ma and isotopic analyses suggest that Chilotherium and Dicerorhinus shared similar feeding habits.
Dicerorhinus dentition suggests it was a browser, and although Chilotherium had adaptations for grazing, it has been suggested that Chilotherium was not a true grazer.
gsa.confex.com /gsa/2004AM/finalprogram/abstract_73719.htm   (439 words)

  
 Chrononautic Log: Scimitar cats and short-faced (but long-legged) bears
Indricotherium transsouralicum, the largest mammal ever to walk the Earth.
My fondness for giant extinct mammals dates to the day when, as a small child, I first stood beneath the full-scale model Indricotherium (then known as Baluchitherium) in Lincoln, Nebraska’s Morrill Hall.
Next time you need to hold a private function in Lincoln, consider renting their Elephant Hall.
www.chrononaut.org /log/archives/000251.html   (603 words)

  
 Introduction to the Perissodactyla
Only seventeen species of perissodactyls remain on the Earth today, a shadow of the group's former glory.
Perissodactyls were once much more diverse, including the enormous horned brontotheres, the bizarre browsing, clawed chalicotheres, and the largest land mammal of all time, the Eocene Indricotherium (formerly known as Baluchitherium).
It stood five meters (over sixteen feet) tall at the shoulder.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /mammal/mesaxonia/perissodactyla.html   (294 words)

  
 Ice Age Mammals - EnchantedLearning.com
Andrewsarchus may be an ancestor of the whales.
Fossils have been found in northern and western Africa.
Paraceratherium (similar to Indricotherium) is a large, extinct, hornless rhinoceros.
www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/mammals/Iceagemammals.shtml   (2590 words)

  
 Untitled Document
For about 30 million years, rhinos were the most common land mammal in North America.
Ancient species included hornless rhinos, woolly rhinos, and the Indricotherium.
The Indricotherium was the largest land mammal to have ever lived standing more than 18-ft. tall and measuring 27 ft. long.
www.colszoo.org /animalareas/pacderm/rhinfact.html   (464 words)

  
 InfoHub - View Single Post - Indricotherium - The Largest Land Mammal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
InfoHub - View Single Post - Indricotherium - The Largest Land Mammal
Indricotherium (also called Baluchitherium) was the largest land mammal to ever live on this planet.
This creature was a hornless beast that lived 30-20 million years ago.
www.infohub.com /forums/showpost.php?s=1f23561c312d7855258004328222a279&p=8475&postcount=1   (142 words)

  
 Why did Indricotherium get so big again? (PaleoBoard)
Animals probably do not optimize their anatomy for the purpose of running very fast, which occurs only on rare occasions, but for reducing costs of locomotion.
Google scholar is noting that this paper deals with Indricotherium, but I can't see if they are specifically saying that the size or a portion of the size is due to having adapted the anatomy for more effiecient locomotion and the like.
Might be worth looking up the paper if you are really intersted.
s9.invisionfree.com /PaleoBoard/ar/t90.htm   (403 words)

  
 Devil Gigatron alternative modes
I came with this mode as when I got the original Gigatron.
For those who don't know what an Indricotherium is, it was the largest land mammal that ever walked the earth.
Front arms should be placed a little higher, but looks pretty good.
www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/pratchett/170/devil_gigatron.html   (69 words)

  
 Urban Dead - Profile - Indricotherium (Level 41 Civilian)
Urban Dead - Profile - Indricotherium (Level 41 Civilian)
A paleotologist before the disaster struck, Indri is not only relentlessly optimistic but also strung about with the medical supplies with which he does his part to keep Malton alive.
Add Indricotherium to your Contacts List Back to the City
www.urbandead.com /profile.cgi?id=15357   (561 words)

  
 LSN Field Instructor Roster: Indricotherium Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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