page_title: Largest extinct animals
section_title: Land mammals
hierarchical_section_title: Largest extinct animals / Vertebrates / Mammals / Land mammals
caption_attribution_description: English: Paraceratherium transouralicum (formerly Indricotherium), based on new skeletal reconstruction. Русский: Indricotherium, основано на новой скелетной реконструкции.
context_page_description: The largest extinct animals known to date are listed here. They are arranged by their taxonomy. The list only deals with individual animals; size of colonies is not dealt with here.
context_section_description: The largest perissodactyl, and land mammal, of all time was Palaeoloxodon Namadicus. It stood 5.5 m (18 ft) tall at the shoulder, a total height of 8 m (27 ft), totally 12 m (40 ft) long and may have weighed 20 tonnes (22 tons), though mass estimates vary. Some prehistoric horned rhinos also grew to large sizes. The giant woolly rhino Elasmotherium reached 20 ft long and 6.6 ft high.
caption: The second largest land-mammal of all time Paraceratherium
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