Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Alternative combination: Rhinoceros bicornis
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Diceros according to T. Deng et al. 2011
See also Antoine et al. 2010, Gray 1821, Linnaeus 1758, Lu 2013 and Thomas 1911
Sister taxa: none
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (18 collections), Kenya (15), South Africa (13), Sudan (1), Tanzania (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Kenya (1), Malawi (1), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (9), Kenya (1), South Africa (1), Tanzania (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (4), Uganda (8)
Total: 82 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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