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Ceratotherium (white rhino)
Taxonomy
Ceratotherium was named by Gray (1868). It is extant.
It was assigned to Dicerotini by Loose (1975); to Rhinocerotini by Antoine and Saraç (2005), Deng et al. (2011); to Rhinocerotidae by Carroll (1988), Theodorou et al. (2003), Geraads (2017), Böhme et al. (2017); and to Dicerotina by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Tsoukala (2018).
It was assigned to Dicerotini by Loose (1975); to Rhinocerotini by Antoine and Saraç (2005), Deng et al. (2011); to Rhinocerotidae by Carroll (1988), Theodorou et al. (2003), Geraads (2017), Böhme et al. (2017); and to Dicerotina by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Tsoukala (2018).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1868 | Ceratotherium Gray |
| 1975 | Ceratotherium Loose |
| 1988 | Ceratotherium Carroll |
| 1989 | Ceratotherium Prothero and Schoch p. 536 |
| 2003 | Ceratotherium Theodorou et al. |
| 2005 | Ceratotherium Antoine and Saraç p. 603 |
| 2011 | Ceratotherium Deng et al. p. 1287 |
| 2017 | Ceratotherium Böhme et al. |
| 2017 | Ceratotherium Geraads |
| 2018 | Ceratotherium Tsoukala |
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G. Ceratotherium Gray 1868 [white rhino]
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Ceratotherium cottoni Lydekker 1908 [northern white rhinoceros]
†Ceratotherium mauritanicum Pomel 1888
Ceratotherium simum Burchell 1821 [white rhinoceros]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available