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Diceratherium
Taxonomy
Diceratherium was named by Marsh (1875).
It was assigned to Rhinoceridae by Cope (1881); to Aceratheriinae by Weidmann and Ginsburg (1999); to Teleoceratini by Sach and Heizmann (2001); to Diceratheriinae by Hay (1902), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Prothero (1998), Tong (2001), Prothero (2005); to Elasmotheriinae by Antoine et al. (2010); and to Rhinocerotidae by Marsh (1875), Scott (1913), Wood (1960), Carroll (1988), Lofgren et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Rhinoceridae by Cope (1881); to Aceratheriinae by Weidmann and Ginsburg (1999); to Teleoceratini by Sach and Heizmann (2001); to Diceratheriinae by Hay (1902), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Prothero (1998), Tong (2001), Prothero (2005); to Elasmotheriinae by Antoine et al. (2010); and to Rhinocerotidae by Marsh (1875), Scott (1913), Wood (1960), Carroll (1988), Lofgren et al. (2020).
Species
D. annectens (syn. D. cuspidatum, D. nanum), D. armatum (syn. D. lobatum, Aceratherium truquianum, D. gregorii), D. matutinum, D. minus, D. niobrarense (syn. D. petersoni, Aceratherium egregius, Epiaphelops virgasectus), D. niobrarensis, D. persistens, D. radtkei, D. tridactylum (syn. D. avum, D. proavitum), D. truquianum
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1875 | Diceratherium Marsh |
| 1881 | Diceratherium Cope p. 393 |
| 1902 | Diceratherium Hay p. 644 |
| 1908 | Metacaenopus Cook |
| 1912 | Epiaphelops Cook |
| 1913 | Diceratherium Scott p. 291 |
| 1921 | Metacaenopus Troxell |
| 1960 | Diceratherium Wood p. 100 |
| 1988 | Diceratherium Carroll |
| 1989 | Diceratherium Prothero and Schoch p. 535 |
| 1998 | Diceratherium Prothero p. 599 |
| 1999 | Diceratherium Weidmann and Ginsburg p. 222 |
| 2001 | Diceratherium Sach and Heizmann p. 30 |
| 2001 | Diceratherium Tong |
| 2005 | Diceratherium Prothero pp. 47-48 |
| 2010 | Diceratherium Antoine et al. |
| 2020 | Diceratherium Lofgren et al. |
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G. †Diceratherium Marsh 1875
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†Caenopus tridactylus avus Troxell 1921
†Diceratherium annectens Marsh 1873
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Invalid names: Diceratherium cuspidatum Troxell 1921 [synonym], Diceratherium nanum Marsh 1875 [synonym]
†Diceratherium armatum Marsh 1875
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Invalid names: Aceratherium truquianum Cope 1879 [synonym], Diceratherium gregorii Peterson 1920 [synonym], Diceratherium lobatum Troxell 1921 [synonym]
†Diceratherium matutinum Marsh 1870
†Diceratherium minus Ringström 1924
†Diceratherium niobrarense Peterson 1906
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Invalid names: Aceratherium egregius Cook 1908 [synonym], Diceratherium petersoni Loomis 1908 [synonym], Epiaphelops virgasectus Cook 1912 [synonym]
†Diceratherium niobrarensis Peterson 1906
†Diceratherium persistens Osborn 1904
†Diceratherium radtkei Prothero and Rasmussen 2008
†Diceratherium tridactylum Osborn 1893
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†Caenopus tridactylus metalophus Troxell 1921
Invalid names: Diceratherium avum Wood 1927 [synonym], Diceratherium proavitum Hatcher 1894 [synonym]
†Diceratherium truquianum Cope 1879
Invalid names: Epiaphelops Cook 1912 [synonym], Metacaenopus Cook 1908 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available