Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the genera of the Dinocerata, giving name to the group: so called from the extraordinary protuberances of the skull, representing three pairs of horn-cores.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also
Uintatherium . SeeIllustration in Appendix.
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- noun a variety of dinocerate
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But in the middle Tertiary the mammal brain began suddenly to enlarge, so that in our time the brain of the horse is more than eight times the size of the brain of his progenitor, the dinoceras of Eocene times.
Time and Change John Burroughs 1879
bilby commented on the word dinoceras
A genus of dinosaurs that went extinct due to lousy spelling.
August 31, 2021