Elasmotherium

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Name: Elasmotherium 

Meaning: "Thin-plate-beast" 

Habitat: Eurasia 

Period: Late Pliocene-Late Pleistocene

 Length: 15 ft.

 Weight: 5 tons 

Diet: Herbivore

Elasmotherium ("Thin Plate Beast"), also known as the Siberian Unicorn is an extinct genus of rhinoceros endemic to Eurasia during the Late Pliocene through the Pleistocene, documented from 2.6 Ma to as late as 29,000 years ago in the Late Pleistocene.

Elasmotherium was a species of ice age woolly rhinoceros native to Siberia.

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