Dihoplus

Dihoplus is an extinct genus of rhinoceros that lived in Eurasia from the Late Miocene to Pliocene.

Dihoplus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhinocerotiniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
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 62 occurrencesMiocene — about 26 of 62 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 62 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 22 of 62 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

62 occurrences of Dihoplus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

62 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

13 formations

Unterer Travertin — 50.95°N, 11.38°EUnterer Travertin — 50.98°N, 11.31°EBalta sands — 47.95°N, 29.65°EBalta sands — 47.97°N, 29.30°EBalta sands — 48.57°N, 28.83°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EMytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°EVillamagna — 43.61°N, 10.78°EVillamagna — 43.59°N, 10.67°ERed Crag — 51.96°N, 1.35°EErgene — 41.20°N, 27.83°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.93°N, 1.30°EYatagan — 37.34°N, 28.24°ECigarron — 37.92°N, 1.16°WRavin de Ratavoux — 43.78°N, 5.45°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°EBeyağaç — 37.27°N, 28.97°E

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The named rock units Dihoplus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dihoplus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dihoplus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

717 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Dihoplus, 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

40 references

Each of the 62 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. 28 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 Dihoplus

Credit
Hemiauchenia
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dihoplus 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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What may have been alongside itRhinocerotini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brandt 1878