Diceros Gray 1821 (black rhino)

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

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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 Pleistocene of South Africa (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (1), South Africa (4), Uganda (8)

• Miocene of Greece (1), Kenya (1), Namibia (1), Tunisia (2), Turkey (2)

Total: 95 collections including 97 occurrences

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