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''Eotitanops'' ('dawn titan-face') is an extinct genus of brontothere native to North America and Asia. ''Eotitanops'' is the earliest known
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of brontothere. While brontotheres generally known as very large animals, ''Eotitanops'' was only tall at the shoulder. It probably resembled a larger, bulkier version of its contemporary, the horse-like palaeothere ''
Hyracotherium ''Hyracotherium'' ( ; "hyrax-like beast") is an extinction, extinct genus of small (about 60 cm in length) perissodactyl ungulates that was found in the London Clay formation. This small, fox-sized animal is (for some scientists) considered t ...
''. Like ''Hyracotherium'', it ate leaves and had five-toed front legs and three-toed hind legs.


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* Brontotheres Eocene Perissodactyla Eocene mammals of North America {{paleo-oddtoedungulate-stub