Teleoceras

noun

Tel·​e·​oc·​er·​as

: a genus of short-legged rhinoceroses from the American Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene having a small nasal horn

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from tele- entry 2 + -ceras

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