Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Full reference: O. A. Peterson. 1906. Preliminary Description of Two New Species of the Genus Diceratherium Marsh, From the Agate Spring Fossil Quarry. Science 24(609):281-283
Belongs to Diceratherium according to O. A. Peterson 1906
See also Peterson 1907, Prothero 2005, Prothero et al. 1989, Stecher et al. 1962, Tanner 1969 and Troxell 1921
Sister taxa: Diceratherium annectens, Diceratherium armatum, Diceratherium matutinum, Diceratherium minus, Diceratherium niobrarense, Diceratherium persistens, Diceratherium radtkei, Diceratherium tridactylum, Diceratherium truquianum
Type specimen: CMNH 1271, a skull. Its type locality is Peterson's Quarry A, which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Harrison Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Diceratherium niobrarensis in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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