Coelodonta antiquitatis (Woolly Rhinoceros)

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Coelodonta antiquitatis or Rhinoceros tichorhinus, the Woolly Rhinoceros.

Here are some old cave paintings (reproductions), this site says that this speices died out during the Holocene, is that right ?

www.ancestral.com/cultures/europe/france.html

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noisi said:

this site says that this speices died out during the Holocene, is that right ?

Acording to Walking With Beasts, it lived about 500,000-10,000 years ago.

www.abc.net.au/beasts/factfiles/factfiles/woolly_rhino.htm

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Wooly Rhino











Pronunciation: see-loh-DON-tah
Latin name: Coelodonta antiquitatis
Meaning: Hollow tooth
Animal Type: Mammal - perissodactyl
Dietary Type: Herbivorous - Grazing grass
Closest Living Relative: Sumatran rhino
Size: 2m at the shoulder

Fossil Finds:
Rhino remains have been found all across Europe, although they apparently did not make it across to Ireland or North America. They are also found in cave paintings, suggesting they may have had a band of darker fur around their middles.


Details:
The horns of the woolly rhino were often found in Russia during the 19th century, but because they are so strange-looking, many people believed that they were the claws of giant birds. Frozen carcasses of woolly rhinos were occasionally found in Siberia, although often without their horns or hair, but eventually it was realised that the two belonged together.

Source:
www.abc.net.au/beasts/factfiles/factfiles/woolly_rhino.htm

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I know cave paintings suffer a bit from the "artists freedom to paint", but this seems to be interesting:

Cave paintings suggest they may have had a band of darker fur around their middles.

found here:

www.rhinos-irf.org/rhinoinformation/extinction/woollyrhino.htm

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Oh here is a very nice reconstruction with birds picking up fur from the back:

www.tierseiten.com/unpaarhufer/coelodonta_antiquitatis.html#

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Woolly rhino
Coelodonta antiquitatis



The woolly rhino was a member of an ancient group dating back 40 million years, which also includes today's critically endangered Sumatran rhino that also has reddish hair.

Pronunciation of scientific name
see-loh-DON-tah

Statistics
2m at the shoulder.

Physical Description
The horns of the woolly rhino were often found in Russia during the 19th century, but because they are so strange-looking, many people believed that they were the claws of giant birds! Frozen carcasses of woolly rhinos were occasionally found in Siberia, although often without their horns or hair, but eventually it was realised that the two belonged together.

Habitat
The plains of Europe.

Diet
Woolly rhinos grazed grass.

Behaviour
Woolly rhinos' horns are worn down on the surface that touches the ground suggesting that they swept them back and forth sideways on the ground. This may have been to help clear snow off the grass, or as part of a ritual display, as is done by some modern rhinos today.

Conservation status
Extinct.

History
They lived 500,000-10,000 years ago. Rhinos evolved from a group of tapirs in the late Eocene, and became diverse plains-living animals. Some of them also live in forests, as do a couple of modern rhino species today.

Closest relative
Sumatran rhino.

Source:
www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/462.shtml

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noisi said:

Cave paintings suggest they may have had a band of darker fur around their middles.

This darker fur band can be seen in the restoration by BBC in Walking With Beasts.

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noisi said:

Coelodonta antiquitatis or Rhinoceros tichorhinus, the Wooly Rhinoceros.

Here are some old cave paintings (reproductions), this site says that this speices died out during the Holocene, is that right ?

According to McKenna & Bell (1997), Classification of Mammals above the Species Level, p.484... The chronological range of the genus Coelodonta is Upper Pliocene - Recent in Asia and Middle to Upper Pleistocene in Europe. They blame this name on Bronn, 1831. An earlier name, Gryphus, was preoccupied by a mollusc. Later alternatives include Ticorhinus, Coelorhinus (a mistake), and possibly Hysterotherium and Atelodus.

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World’s First Baby Woolly Rhino Discovered In Siberian Ice


Read more at www.inquisitr.com/1873256/worlds-first-baby-woolly-rhino-discovered-in-siberian-ice/#md4yl27t7oMqrpBf.99

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Jacobi, Roger M. et al. (2009). Revised radiocarbon ages on woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) from western central Scotland: significance for timing the extinction of woolly rhinoceros in Britain and the onset of the LGM in central Scotland. Quaternary Science Reviews 28(25-26): 2551-2556. [Abstract]

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Kirillova, Irina V. and Shidlovskiy, Fedor K. (2010). Estimation of individual age and season of death in woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799), from Sakha-Yakutia, Russia. Quaternary Science Reviews 29(23-24): 3106-3114. [Abstract]

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