Ceratotherium
Temporal range:
A white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in Etosha National Park, Namibia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Tribe: Dicerotini
Genus: Ceratotherium
Gray, 1868
Species

Ceratotherium (Greek: "horn" (keratos), "beast" (therion)[2]) is a genus of the family Rhinocerotidae, consisting of a single extant species, the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), and its extinct relative Ceratotherium mauritanicum, of which Ceratotherium efficax is considered a synonym.[3] Another species known as Ceratotherium praecox is now considered a member of the related genus Diceros.[4] The placement of Ceratotherium neumayri from the Late Miocene of Europe and Western Asia within the genus has been questioned, with other authors assigning it to the separate genus Miodiceros.[5] The species 'Ceratotherium’ advenientis is known from the Late Miocene of Italy (when it was still part of Africa).[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Fossilworks: Ceratotherium".
  2. ↑ "Glossary. American Museum of Natural History". Archived from the original on 20 November 2021.
  3. ↑ Geraads, D. (2020). "Perissodactyla (Rhinocerotidae and Equidae) from Kanapoi" (PDF). J. Hum. Evol. 140. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.013. PMID 28966048.
  4. ↑ Geraads, Denis (2005). "Pliocene Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia) from Hadar and Dikka (Lower Awash, Ethiopia), and a revision of the origin of modern African rhinos" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (2): 451–461. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0451:PRMFHA]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4524458.
  5. ↑ Giaourtsakis, Ioannis X. (2022), Vlachos, Evangelos (ed.), "The Fossil Record of Rhinocerotids (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) in Greece", Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 2, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 409–500, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68442-6_14, ISBN 978-3-030-68441-9, retrieved 2023-11-20
  6. ↑ Pandolfi, Luca; Marra, Antonella Cinzia; Carone, Giuseppe; Maiorino, Leonardo; Rook, Lorenzo (2021-02-01). "A new rhinocerotid (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from the latest Miocene of Southern Italy". Historical Biology. 33 (2): 194–208. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1602615. ISSN 0891-2963.


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