Aceratheriinae
| Aceratheriinae Temporal range:
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| Aceratherium incisivum skull | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Subfamily: | † Dollo, 1885 |
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See Taxonomy | |
Aceratheriinae, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (á-), meaning "-less", κέρας (kéras), meaning "horn", and θηρίον (theríon), meaning "beast", is an extinct subfamily of rhinoceros endemic to Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, from the Oligocene through the Pliocene. It lived from 33.9 to 3.4 mya, existing for approximately 30.5 million years.[1]
Taxonomy
Aceratheriinae was named by Dollo (1885). It was assigned to Rhinocerotida by Codrea (1992); and to Rhinocerotidae by Prothero (1998), Antoine et al. (2000), Kaya and Heissig (2001), Sach and Heizmann (2001) and Deng (2005).[2][3][4]
The following genera are recognized as valid:
- Aceratherium
- Acerorhinus
- Alicornops
- Aphelops
- Aprotodon
- Brachydiceratherium
- Brachypotherium
- Chilotherium
- Diaceratherium
- Dromoceratherium
- Floridaceras
- Galushaceras
- Hoploaceratherium
- Mesaceratherium
- Peraceras
- Persiatherium
- Plesiaceratherium
- Proaceratherium
- Prosantorhinus
- Shansirhinus
- Subchilotherium
- Teleoceras
References
- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Aceratheriinae, basic info
- ^ V. Codrea. 1992. New mammal remains from the Sarmatian deposits an Minisu de Sus (Taut, Arad County). Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Geologica 2:35-41
- ^ D. R. Prothero. 1998. Rhinocerotidae. in C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 595-605
- ^ P.-O. Antoine, C. Bulot, and L. Ginsburg. 2000. Une faune rare de rhinocérotidés (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) dan le Miocène inférieur de Pellecahus (Gers, France). Geobios 33(2):249-255