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The woolly rhinoceros was a member of the Pleistocene megafauna. The woolly rhinoceros was large, comparable to in size to the largest living rhinoceros species, the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), and covered with long, thick hair that allowed it to survive in the extremely cold, harsh mammoth steppe.
Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799): The type species of the genus, commonly known as the woolly rhinoceros. It lived in the steppes of northern Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, and was the last living representative of the genus.
Coelodonta thibetana, the Tibetan woolly rhinoceros, is an extinct species of the genus Coelodonta native to western Himalayas that lived during the middle Pliocene epoch. C. thibetana is known from the holotype IVPP V15908, a partially complete skull including incomplete lower jaw preserved with full dentition .
When this woolly rhino roamed eastern Siberia more than 30,000 years ago, it would have “been one of the largest herbivores in the Ice Age ecosystem, second only to the woolly mammoth,” and ...
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Coelodonta tologoijensis is an extinct species of rhinoceros belonging to the genus Coelodonta, related to the woolly rhinoceros.It is known from fossils found in Siberia and Mongolia, dating from the Early Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene.
The European woolly rhino—which weighed roughly two tons, stood about five feet tall, and was around 11 feet in length—displays thousands of years of deviation from the Siberian population.
Writings from the time of its creation specifically identify the skull of Coelodonta antiquitatis, the woolly rhinoceros, as the basis for the head in the restoration. This skull had been found in a mine or gravel pit near Klagenfurt in 1335, and remains on display today.