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Dicerorhinus

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Taxonomy
Dicerorhinus was named by Gloger (1841). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Didermocerus by Antunes and Mein (1977).

It was assigned to Dicerorhinini by Loose (1975); to Rhinocerotidae by Carroll (1988); to Dicerorhinina by Prothero and Schoch (1989) and Cerdeno (1992); to Dicerorhininae by Xu (1986) and Tong (2001); to Rhinocerotina by Antoine et al. (2010); and to Rhinocerotini by Deng et al. (2011).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Didermocerus Brookes
1841Dicerorhinus Gloger
1975Dicerorhinus Loose
1986Dicerorhinus Xu
1988Dicerorhinus Carroll
1988Didermocerus Carroll
1989Dicerorhinus Prothero and Schoch p. 536
1992Dicerorhinus Cerdeno
2001Dicerorhinus Tong
2010Dicerorhinus Antoine et al.
2011Dicerorhinus Deng et al. p. 1287

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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
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
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
genusDicerorhinusGloger 1841

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. Dicerorhinus Gloger 1841
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Dicerorhinus cixianensis Chen and Wu 1976
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis Fischer 1814 [Sumatran rhino]
Invalid names: Didermocerus Brookes 1828 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available