Rhinocerotidae
Searched as Rhinoceros sinhaleyus. The Paleobiology Database treats Rhinocerotidae as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- rhinocerosPBDB
- Sits inside
- RhinocerotoideaPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Rhinocerotidae 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Rhinocerotidae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Rhinocerotidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,726 taxa- Equidae29 sites
- Brontotheriidae26 sites
- Camelidae26 sites
- Mylagaulidae26 sites
- Diceratherium25 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius24 sites
- Teleoceras24 sites
- Subhyracodon21 sites
- Hyracodon20 sites
- Hipparionini19 sites
- Hippotherium19 sites
- Mesohippus bairdi19 sites
- Leptomeryx evansi18 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax17 sites
- Merycoidodontidae17 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus17 sites
- Daphoenus16 sites
- Agriochoerus15 sites
- Archaeotherium mortoni15 sites
- Merychyus15 sites
- Miohippus15 sites
- Palaeolagus temnodon15 sites
- Poebrotherium15 sites
- Subhyracodon occidentalis15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,492 sites for Rhinocerotidae, and this reads 240 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Rhinocerotidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRhinocerotoidea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821