Diaceratherium

Not to be confused with Diceratherium.

Diaceratherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid from the Oligocene and Miocene of Eurasia.^[1]

Diaceratherium Temporal range: Oligocene–Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
D. aurelianense skull
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily:	†Aceratheriinae
Genus:	†Diaceratherium Dietrich, 1931
Species
D. lemanense Pomel, 1853 D. aurelianense Nouel, 1866 D. asphaltense Depéret & Douxami, 1902 D. aginense Répelin, 1917 D. tomerdingense Dietrich, 1931 (type) D. lamilloquense Michel in Brunet, De Bonis & Michel, 1987 D. askazansorense Kordikova, 2001

Studies in 2019 suggested that seven species are valid.^[2]

Diaceratherium aginense jaw

References

1. Becker, D.; Bürgin, T.; Oberli, U.; Scherler, L. (2009). "Diaceratherium lemanense (Rhinocerotidae) from Eschenbach (eastern Switzerland): Systematics, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 254 (1–2): 5–39. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0002.
2. Jame, Claire; Tissier, Jérémy; Maridet, Olivier; Becker, Damien (2019). "Early Agenian rhinocerotids from Wischberg (Canton Bern, Switzerland) and clarification of the systematics of the genus Diaceratherium". PeerJ. 7: e7517. doi:10.7717/peerj.7517. PMC 6717501. PMID 31523499.