Parelasmotherium

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Parelasmotherium
Temporal range: Late Miocene
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Parelasmotherium linxiaense head
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily: Elasmotheriinae
Genus: Parelasmotherium
Killgus, 1923
Type species
Parelasmotherium schansiense
Killgus, 1923
Other species
  • P. simplumQui & Xie, 1998
  • P. linxiaenseDeng, 2001

Parelasmotherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotids that lived in Northern China about 11.1 million years ago in the Late Miocene. With its large body and its hypsodont grazing teeth, it belonged to the subfamily Elasmotheriinae and was a relative of the later Elasmotherium , which was widespread over large parts of northern Asia in the 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 teeth in 2022 suggested that two of them (P. simplum and P. linxiaense) are not closely related to the remaining species and should be placed in a separate genus. [1]

History

Hugo Killgus established the genus Parelasmotherium in 1923, as a giant elasmotheriine rhinoceros to which he assigned the species Parelasmotherium schansiense based on fossil remains that were collected from Shanxi, China. [2]

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References

  1. Kampouridis, Panagiotis; Hartung, Josephina; Ferreira, Gabriel S.; Böhme, Madelaine (2022-04-29). "Reappraisal of the late Miocene elasmotheriine Parelasmotherium schansiense from Kutschwan (Shanxi Province, China) and its phylogenetic relationships". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41 (6): e2080556. doi:10.1080/02724634.2021.2080556. ISSN   0272-4634. S2CID   251369275.
  2. "Ünterpliozäne Sauger aus China". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 5 (3): 251–257. September 1923. Bibcode:1923PalZ....5..251.. doi:10.1007/bf03160375. ISSN   0031-0220. S2CID   186237305.