Diceros

Diceros is a genus of rhinoceros containing the extant black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) and several extinct species.

Diceros

Gerry Zambonini · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
black rhinoPBDB
Sits inside
RhinocerotiniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 97 occurrencesMiocene — about 21 of 97 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 97 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 54 of 97 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 24 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

97 occurrences of Diceros 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

97 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

23 formations

Shungura — 5.11°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.15°N, 36.04°EShungura — 5.04°N, 36.04°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.92°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.15°N, 36.40°EKoobi Fora — 4.32°N, 36.27°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.70°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.23°N, 35.78°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENkondo/Warwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EHadar — 11.14°N, 40.58°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 10.05°S, 33.96°EUSNO — 5.35°N, 36.17°EVarswater & Bredasdorp — 32.98°S, 18.15°EBredasdorp & Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EMursi — 5.44°N, 35.96°EKaiso Village — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENyabusosi — 1.00°N, 30.50°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EKalam — 5.04°N, 36.00°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ESegui — 33.22°N, 1.17°EYatagan — 37.34°N, 28.24°ENakali — 1.18°N, 36.37°E

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The named rock units Diceros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diceros and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Diceros and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

811 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Diceros, 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

59 references

Each of the 97 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. 47 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 content1

Picture of Diceros

Credit
Gerry Zambonini
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diceros was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821