Rhinoceros Linnaeus 1758 (one-horned rhinoceros)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Alternative spelling: Rhinocerus

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Parent taxon: Rhinocerotini according to L. Pandolfi and L. Maiorino 2016

See also Antoine et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Cope 1881, Deng 2003, Deng et al. 2011, Gray 1825, Hay 1902, Leidy 1873, Linnaeus 1758, Lydekker 1876, Owen 1848, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Stefani 1916 and Tong 2001

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

Subtaxa: 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 sivalensis Rhinoceros sondaicus Rhinoceros unicornis

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Type: Rhinoceros unicornis

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), China (21), France (2), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (4), Italy (3), Pakistan (3), the Philippines (1), Sri Lanka (1), Taiwan (1), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (1), Vietnam (4)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), France (1), India (2), Myanmar (1), Taiwan (1)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), France (1), India (4), Kazakhstan (2), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Turkey (1)

• Neogene of Italy (1), Myanmar (2), Taiwan (2)

• Miocene of Austria (1), China (1), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (5), Italy (1), Moldova (2), North Korea (1), Pakistan (4), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (4)

• Oligocene of Belgium (1)

Total: 101 collections including 111 occurrences

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