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Elasmotherium
Taxonomy
Elasmotherium was named by Fischer (1808). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Rhinocerotina by Gray (1825); to Perissodactyla by Owen (1848); to Rhinocerotidae by Carroll (1988); to Elasmotheriinae by Tong (2001); to Elasmotheriina by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Antoine et al. (2002); and to Elasmotheriini by Deng (2003).
It was assigned to Rhinocerotina by Gray (1825); to Perissodactyla by Owen (1848); to Rhinocerotidae by Carroll (1988); to Elasmotheriinae by Tong (2001); to Elasmotheriina by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Antoine et al. (2002); and to Elasmotheriini by Deng (2003).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1808 | Elasmotherium Fischer |
| 1825 | Elasmotherium Gray p. 342 |
| 1848 | Elasmotherium Owen p. 139 |
| 1988 | Elasmotherium Carroll |
| 1989 | Elasmotherium Prothero and Schoch p. 536 |
| 2001 | Elasmotherium Tong |
| 2002 | Elasmotherium Antoine et al. |
| 2003 | Elasmotherium Deng p. 142 |
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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. †Elasmotherium Fischer 1808
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†Elasmotherium caucasicum Borissiak 1914
†Elasmotherium sibiricum Fischer 1809
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections (14 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pliocene | Uzbekistan | E. sp. (34443) | |
| Pliocene | Russian Federation (Rostovskaya Oblast') | E. caucasicum (39409) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Russian Federation | E. sp. (76530) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Ukraine (Donetsk) | E. sp. (76533) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Hebei) | E. sp. (231023) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Hebei) | E. peii (197069) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Shanxi) | E. sp. (13479) | |
| Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | China (Shanxi) | E. peii (13480) | |
| Pleistocene | China (Shanxi) | E. inexpectatum (13478) | |
| Quaternary | Russian Federation (West-Sibiria) | E. sibiricum (44865) E. sp. (44867) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Turkmenistan | E. sp. (40692 40695) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Turkmenistan | E. sp. (40690) |