Ceratotherium neumayri
| Ceratotherium neumayri Temporal range: Miocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Genus: | Ceratotherium |
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| Ceratotherium neumayri Geraads, 1988 |
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Ceratotherium neumayri is a fossil species of rhinoceros from the eastern Mediterranean, in the Anatolia region in modern Turkey, dating to the late Miocene and 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 be died of high temperatures during a volcanic eruption, has been found in Gulsehir, Turkey on 2012. [3]
Skull in Museo di Paleontologia di Firenze
References
- ^ PLIOCENE RHINOCEROTIDAE (MAMMALIA) FROM HADAR AND DIKIKA (LOWER AWASH, ETHIOPIA). AND REVISION OF THE ORIGIN OF MODERN AFRICAN RHINOS, Denis Geraads, 2005
- ^ P.-O. Antoine and G. Saraç. 2005. Rhinocerotidae from the late Miocene of Akkasdagi, Turkey. Geodiversitas 27(4):601-632
- ^ http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1214636-french-researchers-find-rare-volcanic-fossil
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