Dicerorhinus

Dicerorhinus is a genus of the family Rhinocerotidae, consisting of a single extant species, the two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros, and several extinct species. The genus likely originated from the Late Miocene of central Myanmar. Many species previously placed in this genus probably belong elsewhere.

Dicerorhinus

nicolaitan from New York City · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
Sits inside
RhinocerotiniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 42 of 75 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 75 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 75 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences20.45 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

75 occurrences of Dicerorhinus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

75 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

18 formations

Chinji — 32.68°N, 72.37°EBahe — 33.50°N, 109.50°EChorora — 10.67°N, 40.50°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EKuruksai suite — 38.31°N, 69.67°EBou Hanifia — 35.30°N, 0.10°WKairubak suite — 38.60°N, 69.11°EHofuf — 25.68°N, 49.48°EOberer Travertin II — 50.97°N, 11.35°EDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EKarbolia — 45.53°N, 28.44°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°EBakate — 4.27°N, 36.60°EKhurdkabul — 34.32°N, 69.42°ESabbie di Nugola Vecchia — 43.53°N, 10.49°EMytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°EDytiko — 40.88°N, 22.55°EGnilyane — 42.80°N, 23.06°E

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The named rock units Dicerorhinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dicerorhinus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dicerorhinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

801 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Dicerorhinus, 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

49 references

Each of the 75 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. 37 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 content2

Picture of Dicerorhinus

Credit
nicolaitan from New York City
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis · zmh-s:8273

The description on this site

Licence
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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gloger 1841