Ceratotherium

Ceratotherium is a genus of the family Rhinocerotidae, consisting of a single extant species, the white rhinoceros, as well as several fossil species.

Ceratotherium

Rodrigo J De Marco · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
white rhinoPBDB
Sits inside
RhinocerotiniPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 8.725 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 224 occurrencesMiocene — about 29 of 224 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 85 of 224 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 107 of 224 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 32 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 48 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 44 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 33 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences8.725 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

224 occurrences of Ceratotherium on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

224 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

41 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.23°S, 35.23°EVogel River Series — 3.23°S, 36.19°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EShungura — 5.07°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.15°N, 36.04°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.01°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.86°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.70°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.27°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 3.95°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.09°N, 36.31°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.28°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.70°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.11°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.17°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.21°N, 35.78°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°ENkondo/Warwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°EOlorgesailie — 1.57°S, 36.44°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°EChemoigut — 0.65°N, 36.20°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 10.05°S, 33.96°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EWehaietu — 10.72°N, 40.50°EWehaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°ESagantole — 10.50°N, 40.58°ESagantole — 10.52°N, 40.47°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°EFejej — 5.00°N, 37.00°EUSNO — 5.35°N, 36.17°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°EMatabaietu — 10.55°N, 40.58°E

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The named rock units Ceratotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratotherium and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ceratotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,086 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 207 sites for Ceratotherium, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

93 references

Each of the 224 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 81 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Ceratotherium

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Rodrigo J De Marco
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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CT scan

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Specimen
Ceratotherium simum · zmh-s:2552

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRhinocerotini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1868