Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Synonym: Didermocerus Brookes 1828
Parent taxon: Rhinocerotini according to T. Deng et al. 2011
See also Antoine et al. 2010, Antunes and Mein 1977, Carroll 1988, Cerdeno 1992, Loose 1975, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Tong 2001 and Xu 1986
Sister taxa: Ceratotherium, Coelodonta, Diceros, Dicerotina, Dihoplus, Lartetotherium, Rhinoceros, Rhinocerotina, Ronzotherium, Shennongtherium, Stephanorhinus, Teleoceratina
Subtaxa: Dicerorhinus cixianensis Dicerorhinus sumatrensis Didermocerus sansaniensis
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (2 collections), France (1), Germany (3), Greece (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (2), Morocco (1), Turkey (1), Turkmenistan (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Tajikistan (1)
• Pliocene of Hungary (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Moldova (2), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Uzbekistan (1)
• MN 13 of Moldova (3)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (2), Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), China (3), Ethiopia (1), France (2), Georgia (1), Greece (4), Kenya (2), Moldova (1), Pakistan (3), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (2), Spain (3), Uganda (3), Ukraine (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 71 collections including 76 occurrences
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