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Bookmark or Share- Woolly rhinoceros | Habitat, Extinction, & Facts | Britannicawoolly 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.
- Woolly rhinoceros - WikipediaThe woolly rhinoceros was the most recent species of the genus Coelodonta. The closest living relative of Coelodonta is the Sumatran rhinoceros, and the genus is also closely related to the extinct genus Stephanorhinus.
- Woolly rhinoceros - New World EncyclopediaWoolly rhinoceros, or simply Woolly Rhino, is the common name for an extinct, plant-eating species of rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis, that lived in Europe and Asia from about 350,000 years ago until about 10,000 years ago and was characterized by two "horns" (matted hair) on the upper snout and a thick and shaggy coat of hair.
- Woolly Rhino (Coelodonta): Facts and Figures - ThoughtCoCoelodonta, better known as the Woolly Rhino, is one of the few Ice Age megafauna mammals to be memorialized in cave paintings (another example is the Auroch, the precursor to modern cattle).
- Coelodonta - WikipediaCoelodonta (/ koʊiloʊˈdɒntə /, from the Greek κοιλία, koilía and οδούς, odoús, "hollow tooth", in reference to the deep grooves of their molars) is an extinct genus of Eurasian rhinoceroses that lived from about 3.7 million years to 14,000 years ago, in the Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
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