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
See text.

Species

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

• Diaceratherium aginense (Répelin, 1917)
• Diaceratherium askazansorense Kordikova, 2001
• Diaceratherium asphaltense (Depéret & Douxami, 1902)
• Diaceratherium aurelianense (Nouel, 1866)
• Diaceratherium lamilloquense Michel, 1987
• Diaceratherium lemanense (Pomel, 1853)
• Diaceratherium tomerdingense Dietrich, 1931, type species

Some sources separate the genus Brachydiceratherium from Diaceratherium, in which case some of the species listed above are placed in Brachydiceratherium.^[3]

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.
3. Hullot, Manon; Martin, Céline; Blondel, Cécile; Becker, Damien; Rössner, Gertrud E. (9 October 2024). "Evolutionary palaeoecology of European rhinocerotids across the Oligocene–Miocene transition". Royal Society Open Science. 11 (10). doi:10.1098/rsos.240987. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 11461060. PMID 39386991. Retrieved 5 November 2024.