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English: White elements are preserved, grey elements are either unpreserved or difficult to interpret.

Eobasileus after Fig. 24 of Cope, E. D. 1885. The Amblypoda (Continued). The American Naturalist. 19. 1. 40-55; Plates XIX of Marsh, O. C. 1886. Dinocerata: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals. U.S. Geological Survey; and Fig. 55 of Turnbull, W. D. 2002. The mammalian faunas of the Washakie Formation, Eocene age, of southern Wyoming. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History. Skull is based on AMNH 5040 and P 12710. Jaw based on No. 1567, formerly referred to Tinoceras stenops. Drawn to a skull length of 90 cm (35.4 in).

Uintatherium anceps after Plates II ("Dinoceras mirabile") and VIII ("Tinoceras pugnax") of Marsh, O. C. 1886. Dinocerata: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals. U.S. Geological Survey. Drawn to a skull length of 77 cm (30.3 in)

Uintatherium insperatus after Fig. 1 of Tong, Y. and Wang, J. 1981. A skull of Uintatherium from Henan. Vertebrata Palasiatica. XIX (3): 208-214. Missing and poorly preserved elements are reconstructed based on U. anceps. Drawn to a skull length of 61 cm (24 in).
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Diagram comparing the skulls of Eobasileus cornutus, Uintatherium anceps, and Uintatherium insperatus. Not to scale.

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