sivatheriumn.
/sɪvəˈθɪərɪəm/ Palaeontology.
A fossil ruminant of great size, with four horns, discovered in the Siwalik or Sub-Himalayan hills in Northern India.
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sivatherium1835
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1835 H. Falconer & P. T. Cautley in Asiatic Researches (1836) 19 i. 2 We have named the fossil, Sivatherium [etc.].
1835 H. Falconer & P. T. Cautley in Asiatic Researches (1836) 19 i. 22 The food of the Sivatherium was less herbaceous than that of existing horned ruminants.
1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions 457 The living Sivatherium must have resembled an immense Gnu or Antelope.
1886 A. Geikie Class-bk. Geol. (1903) xxvi. 393 The Sivatherium and Bramatherium—colossal, four-horned creatures, allied to our living antelopes and prong-bucks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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