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English: Illustrating generic characters
  • Fig. I. Rhinoceros unicornis, immature; milk molars in use; permanent incisors just erupting; from the menagerie of Barnum and Bailey; sex and origin unknown. No. 16251, U. S. National Museum.

Dorsal outline deeply concave; incisors in both jaws; post- glenoid and post-tympanic processes united.

  • Fig. 2. Diceros bicornis, male, old; Loita Plains, Southern Guaso Njoro District, British East Africa; shot by Col. Theodore Roosevelt, June 18, 1909. No. 162830, U. S. National Museum.

Occipital crests produced above dorsal plane of skull but not beyond the condyles ; post-glenoid and post-tympanic processes separated.

  • Fig. 3. Ceratotherium simum cottoni, female, old; from Rhino Camp, Lado Enclave; weathered skull. No. 164597, U. S. National Museum.

Nasals and premaxillse widely separated ; dorsal profile of skull showing very slight deflection of the occipital crests, but the latter greatly produced backward beyond condyles; post-glenoid and post-tympanic processes separated.

  • Fig. 4. Coelodonta antiquitatis, adult; from the Pleistocene of the Tunguska River, Siberia. No. 6053, U. S. National Museum.
Mesethmoid greatly developed and united with the nasals ; nasals and premaxillae united at their tips into a solid rostrum ; occipital crests inflected upward above dorsal plane of skull; post-glenoid and post-tympanic processes united.
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Source Heller, Edmund (1913) The White Rhinoceros, Smithsonian Institution
Author Edmund Heller (?)

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