Lartetotherium

Lartetotherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid that lived during the Miocene in Europe^[1] and possibly China.^[2]

Skull

Lartetotherium Temporal range: Miocene
Lartetotherium sansaniense skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Rhinocerotidae
Genus:	†Lartetotherium Ginsburg, 1974
Species:	†L. sansaniense
Binomial name
†Lartetotherium sansaniense Ginsburg, 1974
Synonyms
Dicerorhinus sansaniensis

The type species Lartetotherium sansaniense was a unique cursorial rhinoceros with a distinctly long horn. Its teeth were brachyodont, indicating its diet contained a high quantity of soft plants and a lower proportion of woody material.^[3]

A 2023 study reassigned the species Dicerorhinus cixianensis (Chen and Wu, 1976) from the Middle Miocene of Cixian County, Hebei Province, China, to the genus.^[2] The species is known from a single partial skull and juvenile mandible, notably small in size.^[4]

Palaeoecology

Analysis of δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C values suggests that L. sansaniense was an inhabitant of relatively open environments.^[5]