Sinotherium ("Chinese Beast") is an extinct genus of single-horned elasmotheriine rhinocerotids that lived from the late Miocene (Tortonian - Messinian) to Early Pliocene. It was ancestral to Elasmotherium, demonstrating a very important evolutionary transition from nasal-horned elasmotheriines to frontal-horned elasmotheriines. Its fossils have been found in the Karabulak Formation of Kazakhstan, lower jaw and teeth have been found in Mongolia, and a partial skull is known from the upper part of the Liushu Formation of western China.
Sinotherium diverged from the ancestral genus, Iranotherium, first found in Iran, during the early Pliocene. Some experts prefer to lump Sinotherium, and Iranotherium into Elasmotherium.
Sinotherium ("Chinese Beast") is an extinct genus of single-horned elasmotheriine rhinocerotids that lived from the late Miocene (Tortonian - Messinian)...
in the Late Miocene in present-day China, likely having evolved from Sinotherium, before spreading to the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the Caucasus and Central...
layers, the only Elasmotheriine that can be found in the upper layers is Sinotherium. "Vertebrata PalAsiatica, Vol. 42, 2004----Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology...
Pleistocene. It was named in 1923 and was once considered to be a synonym of Sinotherium. Three species of this genus have been named, although analysis of their...
†Ningxiatherium †Ougandatherium 20.0–16.9 Ma †Parelasmotherium †Procoelodonta †Sinotherium 9.0–5.3 Ma Adult rhinoceroses have no real predators in the wild, other...
Liushu formation of northwestern China. It was a precursor to the related Sinotherium and may have been ultimately outcompeted by its descendant. This species...
perissodactyls (Hipparion hippidiodus, H. elegans, Chilotherium sp., Sinotherium zaisanensis), and six artiodactyls (Cervavitus novorossiae, Procapreolus...
(Sumatran rhinoceros) Dicerorhinus leakeyi Subfamily Elasmotheriinae Genus Sinotherium Genus Iranotherium Genus Menoceras Genus Elasmotherium Elasmotherium...
three-toed horse Hipparion zandaense from Tibet. In 2013 they discovered Sinotherium lagrelii from Linxia Basin in Linxia County, Gansu Province, a transitional...
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