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Rhinoceros sivalensis

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Taxonomy
Rhinoceros sivalensis was named by Falconer and Cautley (1847). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sewalik Hills [GENERAL], which is in a Pliocene/Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in India.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
R. aurelianensis, R. pachygnathus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Rhinoceros sivalensis Falconer and Cautley
1876Rhinoceros sivalensis Lydekker
2016Rhinoceros sivalensis Pandolfi and Maiorino

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
—Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
—Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyRhinocerotoidea
familyRhinocerotidae
subfamilyRhinocerotinae
tribeRhinocerotini
genusRhinoceros
speciessivalensis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Rhinoceros sivalensis Falconer and Cautley 1847
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingg
Diet: browserg
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-31 15:10:07
Modified: 2005-08-31 17:10:41
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 11.60800 to 0.78100 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Miocene - Pliocene23.03 - 2.588India (Punjab) Rhinoceros sivalensis (232184)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Pakistan (Punjab) Rhinoceros sivalensis (13474)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588India (Panjab) Rhinoceros sivalensis (51106)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588India Rhinoceros sivalensis (39209)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene3.6 - 0.781Myanmar Rhinoceros sivalensis (41237)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Middle Pleistocene3.6 - 0.129India (Punjab) Rhinoceros sivalensis (type locality: 203109)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Sri Lanka (Sabaragamuva) Rhinoceros sivalensis (14150)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) Rhinoceros sivalensis (188674)