Coelodonta thibetana

Coelodonta thibetana, the Tibetan woolly rhinoceros, is an extinct species of the genus Coelodonta native to western Himalayas that lived during the middle Pliocene epoch. C. thibetana is known from the holotype IVPP V15908, a partially complete skull including incomplete lower jaw preserved with full dentition. It was first named by Tao Deng, Xiaoming Wang, Mikael Fortelius, Qiang Li, Yang Wang, Zhijie J. Tseng, Gary T. Takeuchi, Joel E. Saylor, Laura K. Säilä and Guangpu Xie in 2011.[1]

Coelodonta thibetana
Temporal range: Middle Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Coelodonta
Species:
C. thibetana
Binomial name
Coelodonta thibetana
Deng, "et al" 2011

Phylogeny

The descriptors conducted a phylogenetic analysis of the five living rhinoceros species and thirteen extinct species. They qualify following cladogram, where C. thibetana was awarded a basal position within its genus.[1]

Ronzotherium

Lartetotherium

Ceratotherium simum (White Rhinoceros)

Diceros bicornis (Black Rhinoceros)

Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (Sumatran Rhinoceros)

Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros sondaicus (Javan Rhinoceros)

Rhinoceros unicornis (Indian Rhinoceros)

Dihoplus megarhinus

'Dihoplus' kirchbergensis

Dihoplus pikermiensis

Dihoplus ringstroemi

Stephanorhinus etruscus

Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis

Stephanorhinus hemitoechus

Coelodonta (Woolly rhinoceros)

Coelodonta thibetana

Coelodonta nihowanensis

Coelodonta tologoijensis

Coelodonta antiquitatis

References

  1. Deng, T.; Wang, X.; Fortelius, M.; Li, Q.; Wang, Y.; Tseng, Z.J.; Takeuchi, G.T.; Saylor, J.E.; Säilä, L.K. & Xie, G. (2011). "Out of Tibet: Pliocene Woolly Rhino Suggests High-Plateau Origin of Ice Age Megaherbivores". Science. 333 (6047): 1285–1288. Bibcode:2011Sci...333.1285D. doi:10.1126/science.1206594. PMID 21885780. S2CID 8913866.
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