Stephanorhinus
Stephanorhinus is an extinct genus of two-horned rhinoceros native to Eurasia and North Africa that lived during the Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene. Species of Stephanorhinus were the predominant and often only species of rhinoceros in much of temperate Eurasia, especially Europe, for most of the Pleistocene. The last two species of Stephanorhinus – Merck's rhinoceros (S. kirchbergensis) and the narrow-nosed rhinoceros (S. hemitoechus) – went extinct during the last glacial period.
| Stephanorhinus Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene | |
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| Stephanorhinus etruscus skeleton | |
| Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis skeleton | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Tribe: | Dicerorhinini |
| Genus: | †Stephanorhinus Kretzoi, 1942 |
| Type species | |
| †Rhinoceros etruscus Falconer, 1868 | |
| Species | |
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