Hispanotherium

Hispanotherium was a genus of rhinoceros of the tribe Elasmotheriini endemic to Europe and Asia during the Miocene living from 16—7.25 mya existing for approximately 8.75 million years.[1]

Hispanotherium
Temporal range:
Hispanotherium beonense tooth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily: †Elasmotheriinae
Genus: †Hispanotherium
Crusafont and Villalte, 1947
Species
  • H. beonense (Antoine, 1997)
  • H. corcolense Antoine, Iñigo & Alférez, 2002
  • H. matritense (Prado, 1864) (type)
  • H. wushanense Sun et al., 2018

Taxonomy

Hispanotherium was erected by Crusafont and Villalta (1947) for the nominal species "Rhinoceros" matritense.[2][3] The Asian form Huaqingtherium was once assigned to Hispanotherium, but was eventually recognized as distinct. [4][5][6]

References
  1. PaleoBiology Database: Hispanotherium, basic info
  2. Crusafont, M., and J. F. Villalta. 1947. Sobre un interesante rinoceronte (Hispanotherium) del Mioceno del Valle de Manzanares. Las Ciencias 12:869–883.
  3. Prado, C. de. 1864. Descripci´on F´ısica y Geol´ogica de la Provincia de Madrid. Junta General de Estad´ıstica. Imprenta Nacional, Madrid.
  4. T. Deng (2003). "New material of Hispanotherium matritense (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from Laogou of Hezheng County (Gansu, China), with special reference to the Chinese Middle Miocene elasmotheres". Geobios. 36: 141–150. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(03)00003-2.
  5. Antoine, P.-O. (2003). "Middle Miocene elasmotheriine Rhinocerotidae from China and Mongolia: taxonomic revision and phylogenetic relationships". Zoologica Scripta. 32: 95–118. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00106.x.
  6. O. Sanisidro, M. T. Alberdi and J. Morales (2012). "The First Complete Skull of Hispanotherium matritense (Prado, 1864) (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from the Middle Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 446–455. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.639420.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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