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woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis)
Subject: woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis)
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Woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) - Mauricio Antón.jpg
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woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis)


Description
English: A woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) in a late Pleistocene landscape in northern Spain. (Information according to the caption of the same image in Alan Turner (2004) National Geographic Prehistoric Mammals, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic ISBN 9780792271345, ISBN 9780792269977)
Date circa 2004
Source http://www.plosbiology.org/article/slideshow.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060099&imageURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060099.g001, from C. Sedwick (1 April 2008). "What Killed the Woolly Mammoth?". PLoS Biology 6 (4): e99. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060099.
Author Mauricio Antón
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woolly_rhinoceros_(Coelodonta_antiquitatis)_-_Mauricio_Ant%C3%B3n.jpg

The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch and survived the last glacial period. The genus name Coelodonta means "cavity tooth". The woolly rhinoceros was a member of the Pleistocene megafauna.

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