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Hispanotherium

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Hispanotherium
Temporal range: Middle Miocene–Late Miocene
Hispanotherium beonense teeth and mandible
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

Hispanotherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid 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]

Taxonomy

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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

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  1. ^ "PaleoBiology Database: Hispanotherium, basic info". Archived from the original on 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2009-08-24.
  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 (2): 141–150. Bibcode:2003Geobi..36..141D. 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 (2): 95–118. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00106.x. S2CID 86800130.
  6. ^ O. Sanisidro; M. T. Alberdi; 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. S2CID 55538577.