Eotitanops

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Eotitanops
Fossil range: Early to Mid Eocene

Eotitanops borealis

Conservation status

Fossil

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Brontotheriidae
Genus:	Eotitanops Osborn, 1907

Species

E. borealis
E. dayi
E. minimus

Eotitanops ('dawn titan-face') is an extinct genus of mammal.

Eotitanops was the earliest known genus of brontothere. While brontotheres generally known as very large animals, Eotitanops was only 45 cm (1 ft 6 in) tall at the shoulder. It probably resembled a larger, bulkier version of its contemporary, the horse-like palaeothere Hyracotherium. Like this creature, it ate leaves and had four-toed front legs and three-toed hind legs.