Ceratotherium mauritanicum Pomel, 1888

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Africa

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Pomel, A. (1888). Visite faite à la station préhistorique de Ternifine (Palikao) par le groupe excursionniste D. Association française pour l'avancement des sciences. Compters Rendus 17: 208-212.

Other references:

Arambourg, C. (1938). Mammifères fossiles du Maroc. Mém. Soc, Sci. nat. Maroc 46: 1-74, 9 pIs., 15 figs.

Fortelius, M. et al. (2016). An ecometric analysis of the fossil mammal record of the Turkana Basin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371: 20150232.

Geraads, Denis. (2005). Pliocene Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia) from Hadar and Dikika (lower Awash, Ethiopia), and a revision of the origin of modern African rhinos. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(2): 451-461.

Groves, Colin P. (1975). Taxonomic notes on the White Rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum (Burchell, 1817). Säugetierkundl Mitt: 23: 200-212.

Groves, Colin P., Fernando, P. and Robovský, J. (2010). The Sixth Rhino: A Taxonomic Re-Assessment of the Critically Endangered Northern White Rhinoceros. PLoS ONE 5(4): e9703.

Guérin, Claude and Faure, Martine. (2007). Étude paléontologique sur les mammifères du Pléistocène supérieure de l'oued El Akarit, pp. 365-390. In: Roset, J.-P. and Harbi-Riahi, M. (eds.). El Akarit - Un site archéologique du Paléolithique moyen dans la sud de la Tunisie.

Lauer, Daniel A. et al. (2023). Disruption of trait-environment relationships in African megafauna occurred in the middle Pleistocene. Nature Communications 14: 4016. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39480-8

Moodley, Yoshan et al. (2020). Interspecific gene flow and the evolution of specialisation in black and white rhinoceros. Molecular Biology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa148 [Abstract]

Pomel, A. (1895). Les rhinocéros quaternaires. Carte géologique de l'Algérie, Paléontologie Monographies. 49 pp.

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