Diaceratherium
| Diaceratherium Temporal range:
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| D. aurelianense skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Subfamily: | †Aceratheriinae |
| Genus: | †Diaceratherium Dietrich, 1931 |
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Diaceratherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid from the Oligocene and Miocene of Eurasia.[1]
Studies in 2019 suggested that seven species are valid.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Becker, D.; Bürgin, T.; Oberli, U.; Scherler, L. (2009). "Diaceratherium lemanense (Rhinocerotidae) from Eschenbach (eastern Switzerland): Systematics, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 254 (1–2): 5–39. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0002.
- ^ Jame, Claire; Tissier, Jérémy; Maridet, Olivier; Becker, Damien (2019). "Early Agenian rhinocerotids from Wischberg (Canton Bern, Switzerland) and clarification of the systematics of the genus Diaceratherium". PeerJ. 7: e7517. doi:10.7717/peerj.7517. PMC 6717501. PMID 31523499.
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