Ceratotherium neumayri

Ceratotherium neumayri
Temporal range: Late Miocene, Vallesian-Turolian
Skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Ceratotherium
Species:
†C. neumayri
Binomial name
†Ceratotherium neumayri
Osborn, 1900
Synonyms
  • Diceros pachygnathus Guérin, 1980
  • Atelodus neumayri Osborn, 1900
  • Diceros neumayri Osborn, 1980

Ceratotherium neumayri is a fossil species of rhinoceros from the Late Miocene (Vallesian-Turolian) of the Balkans and Western Asia, with remains known from Greece,[1] Bulgaria,[2] Iran, and Anatolia in Turkey.[3]

  1. ^ I.X. Giaourtsakis. (2003). Late Neogene Rhinocerotidae of Greece: distribution, diversity and stratigraphical range. Deinsea, 10(1), 235–254.
  2. ^ Geraads D, Spassov N. 2009. Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Bulgaria. Palaeontographica A. 287:99–122.
  3. ^ Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Orliac, Maeva J.; Atici, Gokhan; Ulusoy, Inan; Sen, Erdal; Çubukçu, H. Evren; Albayrak, Ebru; Oyal, Neşe; Aydar, Erkan; Sen, Sevket (2012). "A Rhinocerotid Skull Cooked-to-Death in a 9.2 Ma-Old Ignimbrite Flow of Turkey". PLOS ONE. 7 (11): e49997. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...749997A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049997. PMC 3503723. PMID 23185510.