Diceratherium Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Miocene |
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Diceratherium skull, University of California Museum of Paleontology | |
Conservation status | |
Fossil
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
Subfamily: | Diceratheriinae |
Genus: | Diceratherium Marsh (1875) |
Diceratherium is an extinct genus of rhinoceros endemic to North America, Europe, and Asia during the Oligocene through Miocene living from 33.9—11.6 mya, existing for approximately 22.3 million years.[1]
Diceratherium was named by Marsh (1875). It is not extant. Its type is Diceratherium armatum. It was assigned to Rhinocerotidae by Marsh (1875) and Carroll (1988); to Diceratheriinae by Prothero (1998); to Aceratheriinae by Weidmann and Ginsburg (1999); and to Teleoceratini by Sach and Heizmann (2001).[2][3] Diceratherium had a two horns side-by-side on it nose. It lived during the Miocene Epoch.