Elasmotherium caucasicum

Altes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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- Sits inside
- ElasmotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Elasmotherium caucasicum on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Elasmotherium caucasicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elasmotherium caucasicum and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Elasmotherium caucasicum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Acinonyx pardinensis1 site
- Acipenser1 site
- Alilepus1 site
- Allactaga1 site
- Allocricetulus sp.1 site
- Allocricetus1 site
- Allohippus stenonis1 site
- Allophaiomys pliocaenicus1 site
- Anancus alexeevae1 site
- Archidiskodon gromovi1 site
- Bison1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Canis senezensis1 site
- Castor1 site
- Cervodama1 site
- Cervus elaphus1 site
- Cricetulus1 site
- Cygnus1 site
- Desmana1 site
- Dolomys1 site
- Emydinae1 site
- Equus1 site
- Esox1 site
- Eucladoceros dicranios1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Elasmotherium caucasicum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Elasmotherium caucasicum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Altes
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Elasmotherium caucasicum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itElasmotherium through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Borissiak 1914