Parelasmotherium

Parelasmotherium is an extinct genus of rhinos that lived in Northern China about 11.1 million years ago in the late Miocene. With its large body and its grazing teeth (Hypsodont condition), it belonged to the subfamily Elasmotheriini and was a relative of the later Elasmotherium, which was widespread over large parts of northern Asia in the Pleistocene.

Parelasmotherium
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Perissodactyla
Family:
Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily:
†Elasmotheriinae
Genus:
†Parelasmotherium

Killgus, 1923
Species:
†P. schansiense
Binomial name
Parelasmotherium schansiense
Killgus, 1923
Other species
  • †P. simplum Qui & Xie, 1998
  • †P. linxiaense Deng, 2001

It was named in 1923 and once considered to be a synonym of Sinotherium. At least three species of this genus have been named so far.

History

Killgus, in 1923 established the genus Parelasmotherium, as a giant elasmotheriine rhinoceros, to which he assigned the species, Parelasmotherium schansiense based on fossil remains which were collected from Shanxi, China.[1]

References
  1. "Ünterpliozäne Sauger aus China". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 5 (3): 251–257. September 1923. doi:10.1007/bf03160375. ISSN 0031-0220.
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