File:Teleoceras Sp. (fossil Rhinoceros) (Ash Hollow Formation, Miocene; Clayton Quinn Ranch, Near Ainsworth, Nebraska, USA) 2 (33581552395).jpg
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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