Eoazara
Name: Eoazara
(Dawn azara).
Phonetic: E-o-az-ah-rah.
Named By: D. Geraads & S. Zouhri
-2021.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae, Elasmotheriinae.
Species: E. xerrii (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of fossil remains but
roughly comparable to modern days rhinos but with a lighter build.
Known locations: Morocco.
Time period: Miocene.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and partial
post cranial remains.
Eoazara
is a genus of elasmotherine rhino that lived in North Africa during the
Miocene.
Further reading
- A new late Miocene elasmotheriine rhinoceros from Morocco. -
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 66. - D. Geraads &
S. Zouhri -2021.
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