Rhinocerus tooth - Chilotherium primigenesis
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Late Miocene
Shanxi Province, China
ITEM# MAMMAL-China-0002
Very nice fossil tooth of the rhinoeceroid Chilotherium primigenesis from the Miocene deposits of Shanxi Province, China. Chilotherium primigenesis belongs to the Order Perissodactyla, Family Rhinocerotidae.
Late Cenozoic terrestrial deposits from the Linxia Basin (Gansu, China) have yielded many mammalian fossils. In these faunas, rhinocerotids are very abundant and species rich. The rhinocerotids have essentially been collected and studied since the 1980s
Chilotherium was a rhinoceros genus that lived in the Miocene (26-7 million years ago) and Pliocene (7-2 million years ago). It was dominant among the Hipparion fauna of the Late Miocene in China. It was an extremely wide ranging rhinoceros, and fossils of it have been found in China, Asia, Turkey, and Europe. Often called the "shovel-tusker," this extinct relative of modern elephants lived 25 million years ago, before the Ice Age. It may have used its huge, shovel-like lower jaw to dig into boggy bottoms and scoop up aquatic plants in the wet prairies where it lived.
Under the family Rhinocerotidae, seventeen genera, sixty-two species (including four subspecies and two variants) were recognized or originally named in China. Chilotherium is the most diversified genus, which contains eighteen species and two variants. Rhinoceros sinensis, Coelodonta antiquitatis and Dicerorhinus mercki are the three most frequently appearing species in geologic records, but 61% of the species have only one single locality and horizon.
This tooth is approximately 2 inches long.The specific name, primigenius, is a Latin word, and means the first. This species is considered the most primitive species of the genus Chilotherium.
The skull of Chilotherium primgenesis contains two large tusks which entend outward and upward markedly, and their medial flanges also are almost erect.
This tooth is approximately 2 inches long.
Shanxi Province, China
ITEM# MAMMAL-China-0002
Very nice fossil tooth of the rhinoeceroid Chilotherium primigenesis from the Miocene deposits of Shanxi Province, China. Chilotherium primigenesis belongs to the Order Perissodactyla, Family Rhinocerotidae.
Late Cenozoic terrestrial deposits from the Linxia Basin (Gansu, China) have yielded many mammalian fossils. In these faunas, rhinocerotids are very abundant and species rich. The rhinocerotids have essentially been collected and studied since the 1980s
Chilotherium was a rhinoceros genus that lived in the Miocene (26-7 million years ago) and Pliocene (7-2 million years ago). It was dominant among the Hipparion fauna of the Late Miocene in China. It was an extremely wide ranging rhinoceros, and fossils of it have been found in China, Asia, Turkey, and Europe. Often called the "shovel-tusker," this extinct relative of modern elephants lived 25 million years ago, before the Ice Age. It may have used its huge, shovel-like lower jaw to dig into boggy bottoms and scoop up aquatic plants in the wet prairies where it lived.
Under the family Rhinocerotidae, seventeen genera, sixty-two species (including four subspecies and two variants) were recognized or originally named in China. Chilotherium is the most diversified genus, which contains eighteen species and two variants. Rhinoceros sinensis, Coelodonta antiquitatis and Dicerorhinus mercki are the three most frequently appearing species in geologic records, but 61% of the species have only one single locality and horizon.
This tooth is approximately 2 inches long.The specific name, primigenius, is a Latin word, and means the first. This species is considered the most primitive species of the genus Chilotherium.
The skull of Chilotherium primgenesis contains two large tusks which entend outward and upward markedly, and their medial flanges also are almost erect.
This tooth is approximately 2 inches long.