Coelodonta tologoijensis
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| Coelodonta tologoijensis Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Genus: | †Coelodonta |
| Species: | †C. tologoijensis
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| †Coelodonta tologoijensis Beliajeva, 1966
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Coelodonta tologoijensis is an extinct species of woolly rhino (Coelodonta). It was originally described as an Asian species. Subsequently one skull found in the Kyffhauser hills near the town of Bad Frankenhausen, Germany, was assigned to the species by researchers, which would make it the earliest known woolly rhino in Europe. The species was thought to have migrated to Europe between around 478,000 and 424,000 years ago during a cold, arid period. However, a 2022 study refuted the assignment of the Bad Frankenhausen skull to C. tologoijensis, interpreting it as the skull of the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) instead.[1]
References
- ^ Uzunidis, A.; Antoine, P.-O.; Brugal, J.-P. (2022). "A Middle Pleistocene Coelodonta antiquitatis praecursor Guérin (1980) (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Les Rameaux, SW France, and a revised phylogeny of Coelodonta Bronn, 1831". Quaternary Science Reviews. 288: Article 107594. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107594.
- Woolly rhino's ancient migration BBC News, Monday, 17 November 2008Error: "Q5140641" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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