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Aceratherium
Taxonomy
Aceratherium was named by Kaup (1834).
It was corrected as Acerotherium by Lydekker (1876).
It was assigned to Perissodactyla by Owen (1848), Lydekker (1876); to Elasmotheriinae by Hay (1902); to Rhinocerotidae by Lambe (1908), Carroll (1988); to Aceratheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Cerdeno (1992); to Aceratherini by Kaya and Heissig (2001); and to Aceratheriini by Antoine et al. (2010).
It was corrected as Acerotherium by Lydekker (1876).
It was assigned to Perissodactyla by Owen (1848), Lydekker (1876); to Elasmotheriinae by Hay (1902); to Rhinocerotidae by Lambe (1908), Carroll (1988); to Aceratheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Cerdeno (1992); to Aceratherini by Kaya and Heissig (2001); and to Aceratheriini by Antoine et al. (2010).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1834 | Aceratherium Kaup p. 50 |
| 1848 | Acerotherium Owen p. 139 |
| 1876 | Acerotherium Lydekker |
| 1902 | Aceratherium Hay p. 645 |
| 1904 | Aceratherium persistens Osborn |
| 1908 | Aceratherium Lambe |
| 1988 | Aceratherium Carroll |
| 1989 | Aceratherium Prothero and Schoch p. 535 |
| 1992 | Aceratherium Cerdeno |
| 2001 | Aceratherium Kaya and Heissig p. 458 |
| 2010 | Aceratherium Antoine et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Aceratherium Kaup 1834
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†Aceratherium huadeensis Qiu 1979
†Aceratherium incisivum Cuvier 1824
†Aceratherium perimense Falconer and Cautley 1847
Invalid names: Aceratherium persistens Osborn 1904 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Oligocene to the top of the Ruscinian or 33.90000 to 3.55000 Ma
Collections (83 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Oligocene | China (Nei Mongol) | A. sp. (174759) | |
| Rupelian | Belgium (Antwerpen) | A. albigense (52047) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kazakhstan | A. aralense (64413 74900) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Georgia | A. sp. (182744) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Mongolia | A. pauliacense (181062) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Kenya | A. acutirostratum (70808) | |
| Miocene | France (Vaucluse) | A. incisivum (201497) | |
| Neogene | Ukraine | A. sp. (184130) | |
| Neogene | Myanmar | Rhinoceros sp. (215569) | |
| Burdigalian | China (Shandong) | A. sp. (41810) | |
| Burdigalian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | A. sp. (69098) | |
| Burdigalian | Saudi Arabia | A. sp. (47021 47026 47069 47074 47097) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya (Northern Frontier District) | A. acutirostratum, A. sp. (122454) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | A. acutirostratum (38060) | |
| MN 4 | France (Centre) | A. platyodon (69116) | |
| MN 4 | France (Midi-Pyrénées) | A. platyodon (71873) | |
| MN 4 | France (Alsac) | A. platyodon (69106) | |
| MN 4 | Egypt | A. sp. (53970) | |
| Langhian | France (Aquitaine Region) | A. platyodon (31316 31326) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Poland (Silesia) | A. simorrense (42588 42595 42596) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Kenya | A. acutirostratum (22303) A. sp. (22273) | |
| Middle Miocene | Kazakhstan | A. depereti (75058) | |
| Middle Miocene | Pakistan (Punjab) | A. sp. (13472) | |
| Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | Spain (Catalonia) | A. incisivum (199537) | |
| MN 6 | Russian Federation (Stavropol) | A. sp. (56738) | |
| Serravallian | China (Ningxia) | Aceratheriina indet. (42539) | |
| Serravallian | Ukraine (Cherson) | A. sp. (60256) | |
| Serravallian | Ukraine (Dnepropetrovsk) | A. sp. (60263) | |
| Serravallian | Moldova (Chișinău) | A. sp. (210590) A. sp., A. incisivum (210536) | |
| Serravallian | Switzerland (Zurich) | A. incisivum (198616) | |
| Serravallian | Moldova | A. incisivum (60271) | |
| MN 6 - MN 7 + 8 | Slovakia | A. sp., A. aurelianense (69712) | |
| Sarmatian | Romania (Vaslui) | A. incisivum (197472) | |
| Sarmatian | Russian Federation | A. sp. (73903) | |
| Sarmatian | Türkiye | A. kowaleskii, A. sp. (56563) | |
| Sarmatian | Ukraine | A. sp. (183535) | |
| MN 7 + 8 | Switzerland (Thurgau) | A. sp. (46277) | |
| MN 7 + 8 | Spain | A. sp. (78058) | |
| Vallesian | Syria | Acerotherium persiae (41746) | |
| Vallesian | Spain (Segovia) | A. incisivum, Dicerorhinus sp. (40768) | |
| Vallesian | Spain (Catalonia) | A. incisivum (38972 38976) A. sp. (176268) | |
| Tortonian | Ukraine | A. incisivum (76299) A. kowalev, A. incisivum (75800) | |
| Tortonian | Ukraine (Odessa) | A. incisivum (75794) A. schlosseri, A. persima, A. sp. (75796) | |
| Tortonian | Germany (Bavaria) | A. sp. (34256) | |
| Tortonian | Georgia | A. transcaucasicum (73901) | |
| Tortonian | India (Gujarat) | Rhinoceros perimensis (203112) | |
| Tortonian | Moldova | A. incisivum (75802) A. schlosseri, A. incisivum (75803) A. simplex, A. incisivum (75801) | |
| Tortonian | Ukraine (Izmail) | A. incisivum (76313) | |
| Tortonian | China (Yunnan) | A. sp. (11798) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Moldova (Tighina Departement) | A. incissivum (36143) A. schlosseri, A. incisivum (36139) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Türkiye (Mugla) | A. sp. (13998) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima) | A. sp. (144187) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | India (Gujarat) | A. perimense (87489) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Chalkidona) | A. sp. (182750) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | India (Himachal Pradesh) | A. lydekkeri (13060) | |
| Tortonian - Messinian | Spain (Barcelona) | A. sp. (38152) | |
| MN 9 | Hungary (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén) | A. incisivum (75481) | |
| MN 10 | Türkiye (Thrace) | A. incisivum (67661) | |
| MN 10 | Moldova (Anenii Noi) | A. incisivum (60268) | |
| MN 10 | Spain (Teruel) | A. incisivum (38345) | |
| MN 11 | Austria (Burgenland) | A. sp. (37789) | |
| MN 11 | Georgia | A. sp. (75087) | |
| Turolian | Spain (Valencia) | A. incisivum (40758) | |
| MN 12 | Ukraine (Odessa) | A. incisivum (167995) | |
| Messinian | Bulgaria | A. incisivum (215636) | |
| Ruscinian | Russian Federation (Stavropol'skaya) | A. sp. (40394) |