Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of Ice Age megaherbivores

T. Deng, X. Wang, M. Fortelius, Q. Li, Y. Wang, Z. J. Tseng, G. T. Takeuchi, J. E. Saylor, L. K. Säilä, and G. Xie

2011

Article

Science 333:1285-1288

Find it at:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1206594

Taxa discussed in this work:

• Coelodonta nihowanensis
• Coelodonta thibetana
• Coelodonta tologoijensis
• Dihoplus kirchbergensis
• Dihoplus megarhinus
• Dihoplus pikermiensis
• Dihoplus ringstroemi
• Rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus)
• Rhinoceros sondaicus
• Stephanorhinus hemitoechus
• Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis

Taxonomy:

• Rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus) belongs to Rhinoceros - Toula (1902)
• Dihoplus megarhinus belongs to Dihoplus - Deng et al. (2011)
• Coelodonta thibetana belongs to Coelodonta - Deng et al. (2011)
• Dihoplus kirchbergensis belongs to Dihoplus - Deng et al. (2011)
• Dihoplus pikermiensis belongs to Dihoplus - Deng et al. (2011)
• Dihoplus ringstroemi belongs to Dihoplus - Deng et al. (2011)
• Dihoplus belongs to Rhinocerotini - Deng et al. (2011)
• Coelodonta antiquitatis belongs to Coelodonta - Deng et al. (2011)
• Coelodonta tologoijensis belongs to Coelodonta - Deng et al. (2011)
• Coelodonta belongs to Rhinocerotini - Deng et al. (2011)
• Rhinoceros belongs to Rhinocerotini - Deng et al. (2011)
• Coelodonta nihowanensis belongs to Coelodonta - Deng et al. (2011)
• Stephanorhinus hemitoechus belongs to Stephanorhinus - Deng et al. (2011)
• Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis belongs to Stephanorhinus - Deng et al. (2011)
• Stephanorhinus etruscus belongs to Stephanorhinus - Deng et al. (2011)
• Stephanorhinus belongs to Rhinocerotini - Deng et al. (2011)
• Rhinoceros unicornis belongs to Rhinoceros - Deng et al. (2011)
• Rhinoceros sondaicus belongs to Rhinoceros - Deng et al. (2011)
• Dicerorhinus sumatrensis belongs to Dicerorhinus - Deng et al. (2011)
• Dicerorhinus belongs to Rhinocerotini - Deng et al. (2011)
• Diceros bicornis belongs to Diceros - Deng et al. (2011)
• Diceros belongs to Rhinocerotini - Deng et al. (2011)
• Ceratotherium simum belongs to Ceratotherium - Deng et al. (2011)
• Ceratotherium belongs to Rhinocerotini - Deng et al. (2011)
• Lartetotherium belongs to Rhinocerotini - Deng et al. (2011)
• Ronzotherium belongs to Rhinocerotini - Deng et al. (2011)