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Acerorhinus

Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Taxonomy
Acerorhinus was named by Kretzoi (1942).

It was assigned to Aceratherini by Kaya and Heissig (2001); to Aceratheriini by Antoine and Saraç (2005); and to Aceratheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Deng and Qi (2009), Athanassiou et al. (2014).

Species
A. fuguensis, A. hezhengensis, A. lufengensis, A. neleus, A. palaeosinensis, A. tsaidamensis, A. yuanmouensis, A. zernowi
Species lacking formal opinion data
A. palaeosinense, Chilotherium zernovi
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2007-06-28; modified by E. Vlachos on 2018-08-08

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1942Acerorhinus Kretzoi
1989Acerorhinus Prothero and Schoch p. 535
2001Acerorhinus Kaya and Heissig p. 462
2005Acerorhinus Antoine and Saraç p. 619
2009Acerorhinus Deng and Qi
2014Acerorhinus Athanassiou et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
—Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
—Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyRhinocerotoidea
familyRhinocerotidae
subfamilyAceratheriinaeDollo 1885
genusAcerorhinusKretzoi 1942

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Acerorhinus Kretzoi 1942
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†Acerorhinus fuguensis Deng 2000
†Acerorhinus lufengensis Deng and Qi 2009
†Acerorhinus neleus Athanassiou et al. 2014
†Acerorhinus palaeosinensis Ringström 1924
†Acerorhinus tsaidamensis Bohlin 1937
†Acerorhinus zernowi Borissiak 1914
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: browserf
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-08-31 17:08:31
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Serravallian to the top of the Tortonian or 13.82000 to 7.24600 Ma

Collections (16 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Serravallian13.82 - 11.63China (Jiangsu) Diceratherium sp. (42249)
Vallesian11.63 - 8.725China (Gansu) A. sp. (42257)
Vallesian11.63 - 8.725China (Ningxia) A. tsaidamensis (42261)
Vallesian11.63 - 8.725China (shaanxi) Chilotherium gracile (42254)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Romania (Ilfov) A. sp. (199755)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Greece (Attica) Acerotherium sp. (182754)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Türkiye (Cankiri) A. sp. (184368)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333China (Gansu) A. hezhengensis (236747)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Greece (Euboea) Rhinocerotidae indet. (195435)
MN 109.67 - 8.725Türkiye (Thrace) A. zernowi (67661)
MN 10 - MN 119.67 - 7.9China (Shaanxi) A. sp. (78323)
Turolian8.725 - 5.09Bulgaria A. sp. (208566 208567 208568)
MN 127.9 - 6.965Türkiye (Anatolia) A. sp. (60534)
MN 12 - MN 137.9 - 5.09China (Shaanxi) A. palaeosinense (78328)