| Coelodonta Temporal range: Pliocene - Late Pleistocene
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| Skeleton of the woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Tribe: | Dicerorhinini |
| Genus: | †Coelodonta Bronn, 1831 |
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| Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799)
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Coelodonta (/koʊiloʊˈdɒntə/, from the Greek κοιλία, koilía and οδούς, odoús, "hollow tooth", in reference to the deep grooves of their molars) is an extinct genus of Eurasian rhinoceroses that lived from about 3.7 million years to 14,000 years ago, in the Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs. It is best known from the type species, the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), 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 presumably grew to be around 3.6m long and 1.7m tall.[1]
- ^ Museumsführer - Dinosaurier-Freilichtmuseum und Naturdenkmal Dinosaurierfährten Münchehagen [Museum guide - Dinosaur open-air museum and natural monument Dinosaur Tracks Münchehagen] (in German) (1st ed.). Münchehagen, Lower Saxony, Germany: Dinosaurier-Park Münchehagen GmbH & Co. KG, Rehburg-Loccum. 2012. p. 94.