Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Alternative spelling: Rhinocerus
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
Parent taxon: Rhinocerotini according to L. Pandolfi and L. Maiorino 2016
See also Antoine et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Cope 1881, Deng 2003, Deng et al. 2011, Gray 1825, Hay 1902, Leidy 1873, Linnaeus 1758, Lydekker 1876, Owen 1848, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Stefani 1916 and Tong 2001
Sister taxa: Ceratotherium, Coelodonta, Dicerorhinus, Diceros, Dicerotina, Dihoplus, Lartetotherium, Rhinocerotina, Ronzotherium, Shennongtherium, Stephanorhinus, Teleoceratina
Subtaxa: Rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus) Rhinoceros deccanensis Rhinoceros elatus Rhinoceros goldfussii Rhinoceros habereri Rhinoceros iravadicus Rhinoceros leptodon Rhinoceros leptorhinus Rhinoceros minutus Rhinoceros namadicus Rhinoceros palaeindicus Rhinoceros philippinensis Rhinoceros planidens Rhinoceros platyrhinus Rhinoceros plicidens Rhinoceros sinensis Rhinoceros sivalensis Rhinoceros sondaicus Rhinoceros unicornis
Type: Rhinoceros unicornis
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), China (26), France (2), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (4), Italy (3), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (3), the Philippines (1), Sri Lanka (1), Taiwan (1), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (1), Vietnam (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), France (1), India (2), Myanmar (1), Taiwan (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), France (1), India (3), Kazakhstan (2), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Turkey (1)
• Neogene of Italy (1), Myanmar (2), Taiwan (2)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (1), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (5), Italy (1), Moldova (2), North Korea (1), Pakistan (4), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (4)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1)
Total: 107 collections including 116 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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