Stephanorhinus

Stephanorhinus
Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene 3.4–0.04 Ma
Stephanorhinus etruscus skeleton
Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Tribe: Dicerorhinini
Genus: Stephanorhinus
Kretzoi, 1942
Type species
Rhinoceros etruscus
Falconer, 1868
Species
  • S. etruscus
    (Falconer, 1868) Etruscan rhinoceros
  • S. hemitoechus
    (Falconer, 1859) Narrow-nosed rhinoceros
  • S. hundsheimensis
    (Toula, 1902) Hundsheim rhinoceros
  • S. jeanvireti
    (Falconer, 1859)
  • S. kirchbergensis
    (Jäger, 1839) Merck's rhinoceros
  • S. lantianensis
    (Hu and Qi, 1978)
  • S. yunchuchenensis
    (Chow, 1963)

Stephanorhinus is an extinct genus of two-horned rhinoceros native to Eurasia and North Africa that lived during the Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene. Species of Stephanorhinus were the predominant and often only species of rhinoceros in much of temperate Eurasia, especially Europe, for most of the Pleistocene. The last two species of StephanorhinusMerck's rhinoceros (S. kirchbergensis) and the narrow-nosed rhinoceros (S. hemitoechus) – went extinct during the last glacial period.