Diaceratherium

Not to be confused with Diceratherium.

Diaceratherium Temporal range: Oligocene–Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
D. aurelianense skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily:	† Aceratheriinae
Genus:	† Diaceratherium Dietrich, 1931
Species
See text.

Diaceratherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid from the Oligocene and Miocene of Eurasia. ^[1]

Species

Studies in 2019 suggested that seven species are valid: ^[2]

• Diaceratherium aginense(Répelin, 1917)
• Diaceratherium askazansorenseKordikova, 2001
• Diaceratherium asphaltense(Depéret & Douxami, 1902)
• Diaceratherium aurelianense(Nouel, 1866)
• Diaceratherium lamilloquenseMichel, 1987
• Diaceratherium lemanense(Pomel, 1853)
• Diaceratherium tomerdingenseDietrich, 1931, type species

Some sources separate the genus Brachydiceratherium from Diaceratherium, in which case some of the species listed above are placed in Brachydiceratherium. ^[3]

Diaceratherium aginense jaw

References

1. Becker, D.; Bürgin, T.; Oberli, U.; Scherler, L. (2009). "Diaceratherium lemanense (Rhinocerotidae) from Eschenbach (eastern Switzerland): Systematics, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 254 (1–2): 5–39. Bibcode:2009NJGPA.254....5B. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0002.
2. Jame, Claire; Tissier, Jérémy; Maridet, Olivier; Becker, Damien (2019). "Early Agenian rhinocerotids from Wischberg (Canton Bern, Switzerland) and clarification of the systematics of the genus Diaceratherium". PeerJ. 7 e7517. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7517 . PMC   6717501 . PMID   31523499.
3. Hullot, Manon; Martin, Céline; Blondel, Cécile; Becker, Damien; Rössner, Gertrud E. (9 October 2024). "Evolutionary palaeoecology of European rhinocerotids across the Oligocene–Miocene transition". Royal Society Open Science . 11 (10) 240987. Bibcode:2024RSOS...1140987H. doi:10.1098/rsos.240987. ISSN   2054-5703. PMC   11461060 . PMID   39386991.