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Rhinoceros platyrhinus

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Taxonomy
Rhinoceros platyrhinus was named by Falconer and Cautley (1847). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sewalik Hills [GENERAL], which is in a Pliocene/Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in India.

It was recombined as Punjabitherium platyrhinus by Khan (1971).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
R. aurelianensis, R. pachygnathus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Rhinoceros platyrhinus Falconer and Cautley
1876Rhinoceros platyrhinus Lydekker
1971Punjabitherium platyrhinus Khan
2016Rhinoceros platyrhinus Pandolfi and Maiorino

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
—Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
—Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyRhinocerotoidea
familyRhinocerotidae
subfamilyRhinocerotinae
tribeRhinocerotini
genusRhinoceros
speciesplatyrhinus

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.

†Rhinoceros platyrhinus Falconer and Cautley 1847
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available