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Elasmotherium

RankNameAuthor
kingdomMetazoaHaeckel 1874
—EumetazoaButschli 1910
—TriploblasticaLankester 1877
—NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
—DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataBalfour 1880
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
—GnathostomataZittel 1879
—Osteichthyes(Huxley 1880)
—SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subphylumTetrapodaGoodrich 1930
superclassAmniotaHaeckel 1866
subclassEureptiliaOlson 1947
infraclassSynapsida(Osborn 1903)
orderTherapsidaBroom 1905
infraorderCynodontia(Owen 1861)
—EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
RankNameAuthor
—EucynodontiaKemp 1982
—ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
—MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
—MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
—HolotheriaWible et al. 1995
infraclassBoreosphenidaLuo et al. 2001
infraclassEutheriaHuxley 1880
—LaurasiatheriaWaddell et al. 1999
orderPerissodactylaOwen 1848
suborderTapiromorphaHaeckel 1873
—Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyRhinocerotoideaGray 1821
familyRhinocerotidaeGray 1821
subfamilyRhinocerotinaeGray 1821
tribeElasmotheriiniDollo 1885
genusElasmotheriumFischer 1808

Species lacking formal opinion data
E. inexpectatum, E. peii
Sister genera
Aegyrcitherium, Bugtirhinus, Hispanotherium (syn. Beliajevina, Huaqingtherium, Tesselodon, Caementodon, Begertherium)

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YearName and author
1808Elasmotherium Fischer
1825Elasmotherium Gray p. 342
1988Elasmotherium Carroll
2003Elasmotherium Deng p. 142
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available

Measurements
No measurements are available
Environment: terrestrialinfrac
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: browserf
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 20050831150831
Source: f = family, infrac = infraclass, p = phylum
References: Ji et al. 2002, Kiessling 2004, Nowak 1991
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Age range

Late/Upper Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene or 3.6 to 0.126 Ma

Collections

(12 total)

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pliocene5.33 - 1.81Russian Federation (Rostovskaya Oblast') E. caucasicum (39409)
Pliocene5.33 - 1.81Uzbekistan E. sp. (34443)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 1.81Russian Federation E. sp. (76530)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 1.81Ukraine (Donetsk) E. sp. (76533)
Quaternary1.81 - 0Russian Federation (West-Sibiria) E. sibiricum (44865) E. sp. (44867)
Pleistocene1.81 - 0.011China (Shansi) E. inexpectatum (13478)
Early/Lower Pleistocene1.81 - 0.781China (Shansi) E. sp. (13479)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.781 - 0.011Turkmenistan E. sp. (40690)
Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene1.81 - 0.126China (Shansi) E. peii (13480)
Middle Pleistocene0.781 - 0.126Turkmenistan E. sp. (40692 40695)
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