Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Alternative spelling: Dihophus
Parent taxon: Rhinocerotini according to T. Deng et al. 2011
See also Kaya and Heissig 2001 and Tsoukala 2018
Sister taxa: Ceratotherium, Coelodonta, Dicerorhinus, Diceros, Dicerotina, Lartetotherium, Rhinoceros, Rhinocerotina, Ronzotherium, Shennongtherium, Stephanorhinus, Teleoceratina
Subtaxa: Dihoplus kirchbergensis Dihoplus megarhinus Dihoplus pikermiensis Dihoplus ringstroemi Dihoplus schleiermacheri
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection), France (6), Germany (6), Greece (1), Italy (1), Morocco (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Georgia (2), Italy (2), Poland (1), Romania (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (3)
• Miocene of France (1), Greece (9), Italy (3), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (3), Turkey (4), Ukraine (3)
Total: 59 collections including 60 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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