Gobiatherium

Taxobox
fossil_range = Mid Eocene
name = Gobiatherium


image_caption = "Gobiatherium major" and the pantodont "Hypercoryphodon"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Dinocerata
familia = Uintatheriidae
subfamilia = Gobiatheriinae
genus = "Gobiatherium"
genus_authority = Osborn & Granger, 1932
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"G. major"
*"G. mirificum"
*"G. monolobotum"

"Gobiatherium" (meaning "Beast of the Gobi Desert") was one of the last Uintatheres, from the Mid Eocene of Mongolia. Unlike its North American cousins, "Uintatherium" or "Eobasileus", "Gobiatherium" lacked knob-like horns, or even fang-like tusks. Instead, it had enlarged cheekbones and an almost spherical snout.

Because of the noticeable lack of many diagnostic uintathere features (the horns and tusks), the genus is placed within its own subfamily, "Gobiatheriinae," though some experts prefer to rank it as the family "Gobiatheriidae".