Coelodonta
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Coelodonta (, from the Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos), meaning "hollow", and οδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth", in reference to the deep grooves of their molars) is an extinct genus of Eurasian rhinoceroses that lived from about 3.7 million years to 14,000 years ago, between the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. It is best known from the type species, the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), which ranged throughout northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene. The earliest known species, Coelodonta thibetana, lived in Tibet during the Pliocene, with the genus spreading to the rest of Eurasia dur
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- Parent taxon
- rhinoceros
- Image
- Skulls of .woolly rhino.png
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- taxon name
- Coelodonta
- Commons category
- Coelodonta
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Coelodonta
- start time
- 3700000-00
- end time
- 10000-00-0
- taxon common name
- rinoceronte lanudo
- taxonomic type
- woolly rhinoceros
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Coelodonta (, from the Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos), meaning "hollow", and οδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth", in reference to the deep grooves of their molars) is an extinct genus of Eurasian rhinoceroses that lived from about 3.7 million years to 14,000 years ago, between the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. It is best known from the type species, the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), which ranged throughout northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene. The earliest known species, Coelodonta thibetana, lived in Tibet during the Pliocene, with the genus spreading to the rest of Eurasia during the Pleistocene.
Coelodonta presumably grew to be around 3.6m long and 1.7m tall.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coelodonta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.