Ceratotherium neumayri

Ceratotherium neumayri
Temporal range: Late Miocene, Vallesian-Turolian
Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Ceratotherium
Species:
†C. neumayri
Binomial name
†Ceratotherium neumayri
(Osborn, 1900)
Synonyms
  • Atelodus neumayri Osborn, 1900 (basionym)
  • Diceros pachygnathus Guérin, 1980
  • Diceros neumayri (Osborn, 1900)
  • Miodiceros neumayri (Osborn, 1900) Giaourtsakis 2022 gen. nov.

Ceratotherium neumayri (also known by several other names) is an extinct species of rhinoceros from the Late Miocene epoch (specifically the Vallesian and Turolian European land mammal ages) of the Balkans (including Greece and Bulgaria) and Western Asia (including Iran and Anatolia in Turkey).

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