Coelodonta Bronn 1831 (wooly rhino)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Synonym: Tichorhinus Brandt 1849

Parent taxon: Rhinocerotini according to T. Deng et al. 2011

See also Carroll 1988, Cope 1881, Loose 1975, Prothero and Schoch 1989 and Tong 2001

Sister taxa: Ceratotherium, Dicerorhinus, Diceros, Dicerotina, Dihoplus, Lartetotherium, Rhinoceros, Rhinocerotina, Ronzotherium, Shennongtherium, Stephanorhinus, Teleoceratina

Subtaxa: Coelodonta antiquitatis Coelodonta nihowanensis Coelodonta thibetana Coelodonta tologoijensis

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), China (6), France (1), Germany (8), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), the Netherlands (2), North Atlantic (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (5)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1)

• Pliocene of China (1), India (2)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)

Total: 37 collections each including a single occurrence

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