Evolutionary history of Rhinocerotina (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)
Luca Pandolfi
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze 50121, Italy; luca.pandolfi@unifi.it;
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4186-4126
How to cite: Pandolfi (2018). Evolutionary history of Rhinocerotina (Mammalia, Perissodactyla). Fossilia, Volume 2018: 27-32. https://doi.org/10.32774/FosRepPal.20.1810.102732
Bullet-Points Abstract
- The earliest representatives of the group occurred during the Early Miocene.
- The group is well documented during the Late Miocene in Western Eurasia and Africa.
- High species diversity occurred in Eurasia during the Pleistocene.
- The fossil records of Rhinoceros and Dicerorhinus seems to be confined in the Indian subcontinent and East and South-East Asia.
Keywords: Rhinocerotina; evolution; paleobiogeography; Neogene; Quaternary.
Fig. 1. Distribution of extant and fossil species of subtribe Rhinocerotina. The species are rougly listed according to their occurrences for each epoch and for each considered area.
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