Artwork by Stanton Fink
Name
|
Iranotherium morgani
|
|
Authority
|
Ringstrom 1924
|
|
|
Meaning of the generic name
|
Beast of Iran
|
|
|
| Meaning of the specific name |
Named after Jean Jean Marie de Morgan |
|
|
Size
|
3-4 m. in length
|
|
|
Remains
|
Skulls, postcranial remains
|
|
|
Age and Distribution
|
Maragha and Kerjavol in Iran, Miocene, MN 11-12
Linxia Basin in China, Miocene, MN 10 |
|
|
Classification
|
Mammalia Perissodactyla Rhinoceratidae |
|
|
| Further Reading |
Tado Deng. 2006. Neogene Rhinoceroses of the Lingxia Basin (Gansu, China) Cour. Forsch-Instit. Senckenburg 256, pp. 43-56 |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|