Biology:Ceratotherium
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| A white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in Etosha National Park, Namibia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Tribe: | Dicerotini |
| Genus: | Ceratotherium Gray, 1868 |
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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
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Ceratotherium". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=43195.
- ↑ "Glossary. American Museum of Natural History". https://research.amnh.org/paleontology/perissodactyl/concepts/glossary.
- ↑ Geraads, D. (2020). "Perissodactyla (Rhinocerotidae and Equidae) from Kanapoi". J. Hum. Evol. 140. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.013. PMID 28966048. https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01684034/file/Geraads_Kanapoi_Perissodactyla_JournalofHumanEvolution-1.pdf.
- ↑ Geraads, Denis (2005). "Pliocene Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia) from Hadar and Dikka (Lower Awash, Ethiopia), and a revision of the origin of modern African rhinos". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (2): 451–461. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0451:PRMFHA2.0.CO;2]. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/63167/filename/Geraads196.pdf.
- ↑ Giaourtsakis, Ioannis X. (2022), Vlachos, Evangelos, ed., "The Fossil Record of Rhinocerotids (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) in Greece" (in en), 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, https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-68442-6_14, retrieved 2023-11-20
- ↑ 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" (in en). Historical Biology 33 (2): 194–208. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1602615. ISSN 0891-2963. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2019.1602615.
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