Ceratotherium neumayri
Ceratotherium neumayri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
Genus: | Ceratotherium |
Species: | †C. neumayri
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Binomial name | |
†Ceratotherium neumayri Osborn, 1900
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Ceratotherium neumayri is a fossil species of rhinoceros from the
Taxonomy
The species was originally described in 1900 by
Description
The species was a large sized rhinceros, and had two horns, a nasal and a frontal horn. The nasal septum was not ossified.[5]
Ecology
Dental microwear analysis suggests that the species was a mixed feeder that engaged in both grazing and browsing.[9]
Discoveries
Fossils of the species have been found in the Balkans, including Bulgaria[2] and Greece[1][5],as well as Anatolia in Turkey, and in northern Iran and the southern Caucasus in Western Asia.[5] A well-preserved sample fossil of the species, which is believed to have died of high temperatures during a volcanic eruption, has been found in Gülşehir, Turkey in 2012.[3] Some authors have suggested that the species was also present in Africa, based on Late Miocene remains found in Tunisia originally attributed to C. douariense.[10]
References
- ^ a b I.X. Giaourtsakis. (2003). Late Neogene Rhinocerotidae of Greece: distribution, diversity and stratigraphical range. Deinsea, 10(1), 235–254.
- ^ a b Geraads D, Spassov N. 2009. Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Bulgaria. Palaeontographica A. 287:99–122.
- ^ PMID 23185510.
- ^ Osborn HF (1900) Phylogeny of the rhinoceroses of Europe. Bull Am Mus Natur Hist 12:229–267Return
- ^ S2CID 239883886, retrieved 2023-11-20
- S2CID 135074081.
- S2CID 52105151.
- ^ Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Saraç, Gerçek (2005). "Rhinocerotidae from the late Miocene of Akkasdagi, Turkey". Geodiversitas. 27 (4): 601–632.
- S2CID 251046561.
- ^ Pandolfi (2018). Evolutionary history of Rhinocerotina (Mammalia, Perissodactyla). Fossilia, Volume 2018