Uintatherium

  Uintatherium The first fossils were found near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. It was a large browsing animal that was about the size of a rhinocerous. Uintatherium had a flat, concave skull, a feature not found in any other mammal. The Uintherium lived form about 40 to 45 million years ago. Uintatherium lived near water and used its sabre-like teeth to grab the water and marsh plants which was their main diet. It became extinct because of climatic changes and competition with others of its kind and different animals. It is a herbivore and it eats leaves, grasses, and shrubs Uintatherium is an ancient, distant relative to horses, elephants, and whales. They were about 10-15 feet and weighted about 5,000 to 6,000 pounds.