Ceratotherium neumayri

Ceratotherium neumayri is a fossil species of rhinoceros from the eastern Mediterranean, in the Anatolia region in modern Turkey, dating to the late Miocene. It is the likely ancestor of both the white rhinoceros and black rhinoceros lineages of Africa.[1][2] 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 on 2012.[3]

Ceratotherium neumayri
Temporal range: Miocene
Skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Ceratotherium
Species:
C. neumayri
Binomial name
Ceratotherium neumayri
Geraads, 1988
Synonyms
  • Diceros pachygnathus Guérin, 1980
  • Atelodus neumayri Osborn, 1900

References

  1. Geraads, Denis (2005). "Pliocene Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia) from Hadar and Dikika (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.
  2. Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Saraç, Gerçek (2005). "Rhinocerotidae from the late Miocene of Akkasdagi, Turkey". Geodiversitas. 27 (4): 601–632.
  3. Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Orliac, Maeva J.; Atici, Gokhan; Ulusoy, Inan; Sen, Erdal; Çubukçu, H. Evren; Albayrak, Ebru; Oyal, Neşe; Aydar, Erkan; Sen, Sevket (2012). "A Rhinocerotid Skull Cooked-to-Death in a 9.2 Ma-Old Ignimbrite Flow of Turkey". PLOS ONE. 7 (11): e49997. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049997. PMC 3503723. PMID 23185510.


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