Project Description

(66 – 23 million years ago) — Mascot: Uintatherium — The Paleogene was hot, wet and swampy. Uintatherium was first discovered in Utah during the 1870s, and this herbivore’s name means “Beast of the Uinta Mountains.” Uintatherium were six horned and sabre toothed, and amongst the first big mammals to appear. They have no living descendants today. Behind the Uintatherium runs a herd of Hyracotherium, early ancestors of the horse.