Dicerorhinus

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Dicerorhinus
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Recent
Rapunzel, a Sumatran Rhino in the Bronx Zoo
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Tribe: Dicerorhinini
Genus: Dicerorhinus
Gloger, 1841
Species

Dicerorhinus (Greek: "two" (dio), "horn" (keratos), "nose" (rhinos)[1])[citation needed] is a genus of the family Rhinocerotidae, consisting of a single extant species, the two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros (D. sumatrensis), and several extinct species. The genus likely originated from the Late Miocene of central Myanmar.[2] Many species previously placed in this genus probably belong elsewhere.[3]

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