Coelodonta

Coelodonta is an extinct genus of Eurasian rhinoceroses that lived from about 3.7 million years to 14,000 years ago, between the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. It is best known from the type species, the woolly rhinoceros, which ranged throughout northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene. The earliest known species, Coelodonta thibetana, lived in Tibet during the Pliocene, with the genus spreading to the rest of Eurasia during the Pleistocene.

Coelodonta

W0zny · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
wooly rhinoPBDB
Sits inside
RhinocerotiniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.55 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 37 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 33 of 37 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.55 Mya129 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Coelodonta on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

37 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

5 formations

Oberer Travertin I — 50.97°N, 11.35°ENagrota — 32.70°N, 74.85°ETatrot — 30.73°N, 76.78°EZanda — 31.57°N, 79.85°EGuxiangtun — 45.92°N, 127.40°E

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The named rock units Coelodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coelodonta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Coelodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Coelodonta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

26 references

Each of the 37 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 14 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Coelodonta

Credit
W0zny
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Coelodonta antiquitatis · RBINS-Scientific Heritage:Vert:8151-RH58

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRhinocerotini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1831