Titanotheres

__** Titanotheres **__
 * Also called the brontotheriidae.
 * Titanotheres where huge about the size of elaphants today.
 * They resembled today's rhinos, but were actually closer related to horses.
 * They lived 56-34 million years ago, throughout the eocene and into the earliest part of the Oligocene.
 * They retain four toes on there front feet and three on there hind feet.
 * Their teeth are adapted to sheering (cutting) nonabrasive vegetation.
 * Their molars have a characteristic w-shaped outer sheering blade.
 * Their fossils were found in North America.
 * The Tianotheres are extinct relatives of horses, rhinos, and tapirs.