Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Parent taxon: Rhinocerotini according to T. Deng et al. 2011
See also Antoine et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Loose 1975 and Prothero and Schoch 1989
Sister taxa: Ceratotherium, Coelodonta, Dicerorhinus, Dicerotina, Dihoplus, Lartetotherium, Rhinoceros, Rhinocerotina, Ronzotherium, Shennongtherium, Stephanorhinus, Teleoceratina
Subtaxa: Diceros bicornis
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (18 collections), Kenya (15), South Africa (14), Sudan (1), Tanzania (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Malawi (1), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (9), Kenya (1), Malawi (1), South Africa (1), Tanzania (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (1), South Africa (4), Uganda (8)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene of France (1), Greece (1), Kenya (1), Namibia (1), Tunisia (2), Turkey (2)
Total: 96 collections including 98 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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