Teleoceras is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid endemic to North America during the Neogene (Miocene and Pliocene). The name Teleoceras is derived from Greek: "perfect" (teleos) & "horn" (keratos).
Teleoceras is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid endemic to North America during the Neogene (Miocene and Pliocene). The name Teleoceras is derived from Greek: "perfect" (teleos) & "horn" (keratos).
== Description == Teleoceras had much shorter legs than modern rhinos, and a barrel chest, making its build more like that of a hippopotamus than a modern rhino. It grew up to lengths of long. T. major was found to have been sexually dimorphic, with males being larger than females. Based on the most reliable method, non-length longbones, males could’ve weighed , while females were estimated to have weighed .
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).