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Teleoceras sp. - fossil rhinoceros skull from the Miocene of Nebraska, USA. (public display, Nebraska State Museum of Natural History, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA)

From museum signage: "Teleoceras differed from other late Tertiary rhinos by having an immense barrel-like body and extremely short legs. It was a slow-moving, clumsy animal resembling a hippopotamus, and must have spent much of its time in the ancient rivers of the Great Plains."

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Placentalia, Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae

Stratigraphy: Ash Hollow Formation, Ogallala Group, Miocene

Locality: Clayton Quinn Ranch, near Ainsworth, Brown County, northern Nebraska, USA

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