Coelodonta
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Coelodonta Temporal range: 3.7–0.01 Ma Pliocene - |
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| The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Subfamily: | Rhinocerotinae |
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Coelodonta† Bronn, 1831 |
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Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799) |
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Coelodonta (from the Greek "hollow tooth", in reference to the deep grooves of their molars) is an extinct genus of rhinoceros that lived in Eurasia between 3.7 million years to 10,000 years before the present, in the Pliocene and the epochs.
Other species are recognised for Coelodonta, following to Deng et al. (2011), including:
The authors of the description of the species C. thibetana (Deng et al., 2011) proposed a cladogram to place phylogenetically their position in relation to other members of Rhinocerotidae, using the five extant species of rhinoceros and thirteen extinct species. They found that Coelodonta was the sister taxon of the species Stephanorhinus hemitoechus.
Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis†
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