Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Full reference: H. Falconer and P. T. Cautley. 1847. Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Being the fossil zoology of the Sewalik Hills in the north of India. Illustrations–Part VIII Suidae and Rhinocerotidae.
Belongs to Rhinoceros according to L. Pandolfi and L. Maiorino 2016
See also Falconer and Cautley 1847 and Lydekker 1876
Sister taxa: Rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus), Rhinoceros deccanensis, Rhinoceros elatus, Rhinoceros goldfussii, Rhinoceros habereri, Rhinoceros iravadicus, Rhinoceros leptodon, Rhinoceros leptorhinus, Rhinoceros minutus, Rhinoceros namadicus, Rhinoceros pacificus, Rhinoceros palaeindicus, Rhinoceros philippinensis, Rhinoceros planidens, Rhinoceros platyrhinus, Rhinoceros plicidens, Rhinoceros sinensis, Rhinoceros sondaicus, Rhinoceros unicornis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Sewalik Hills [GENERAL], which is in a Pliocene/Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in India
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Pakistan (1 collection), Sri Lanka (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of India (1), Myanmar (1)
• Pliocene of India (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1)
• Miocene of Pakistan (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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