Modern botanical analogue of endangered Yak - PLOS
2019年3月6日 · This data are helpful for understanding the extinction of megaherbivorous animals such as woolly rhino and mammoth despite having diets very similar to the surviving yak and bison based on their similar palynodata. There are differences between the woolly rhino and today’s living one horn rhino regarding habit and diet.
Out of Tibet: Pliocene Woolly Rhino Suggests High-Plateau
2011年9月2日 · We report a new Pliocene mammal assemblage from a high-altitude basin in the western Himalayas, including a primitive woolly rhino. These new Tibetan fossils suggest that some megaherbivores first evolved in Tibet before the beginning of the Ice Age.
Woolly rhinoceros | Habitat, Extinction, & Facts | Britannica
woolly rhinoceros, (genus Coelodonta), either of two extinct species of rhinoceros found in fossil deposits of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs (5.3 million to 11,700 years ago) in Europe, North Africa, and Asia.
Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya …
2024年7月3日 · Notably, we only identify extinct large carnivores (Crocuta sp.) and megaherbivores (woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta sp.)) below layer 6 (Extended Data Fig. 3 and Supplementary Fig. 4.2).
Woolly rhinoceros - Wikipedia
The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene epoch.The woolly rhinoceros was a member of the Pleistocene megafauna.The woolly rhinoceros was covered with long, thick hair that allowed it to survive in the extremely cold, harsh mammoth steppe.. It had a massive hump reaching from its shoulder and fed ...
Paleobiology and paleoecology of the woolly rhinoceros …
2024年10月24日 · The woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis, was an emblematic component of Pleistocene faunas in Eurasia, which went extinct around ca. 12.5 ky BP. The loss of its tundra-steppe habitat due to climatic changes is considered the main cause for its extinction, whereas human impact was limited.
The Rise (And Fall) Of The Woolly Rhinoceros - Discover Magazine
2023年11月1日 · The woolly rhinoceros — known to scientists as any species of rhinos under the genus Coelodonta — roamed the planet up till 12,000 years ago, spreading all over Asia, Europe, and North Africa. “It had a huge geographical range,” says Pierre-Olivier Antoine, a specialist in Cenozoic megamammals at the Université de Montpellier, in France.
The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) from …
2022年1月31日 · Here, we describe a rhinocerotid skeleton from Ondorkhaan, eastern Mongolia, and compare it with four Late Pleistocene rhinoceros species of northern Eurasia (Elasmotherium sibiricum, Stephanorhinus hemitoechus, Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis and C. antiquitatis), resulting in its identification as a woolly rhinoceros (C. antiquitatis).
Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to
2011年11月2日 · Here we use ancient DNA, species distribution models and the human fossil record to elucidate how climate and humans shaped the demographic history of woolly rhinoceros, woolly mammoth, wild...
Evolution and extinction of the giant rhinoceros - Nature
2018年11月26日 · Phylogenetic analysis of fossil species has resolved two main lineages: the Rhinocerotinae, which includes all living species and the recently extinct woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis...