Rhinocerotoidea
| Rhinocerotoidea Temporal range: Latest Paleocene-Present
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| A Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) at the Saint Louis Zoo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Suborder: | Ceratomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rhinocerotoidea Gray, 1821 |
Just as with tapiroids, rhinocerotoids are one of the more common and popular character types. The superfamily Rhinocerotoidea consisting of four families of odd-toed ungulates, three of which, the Amynodontidae, Hyracodontidae, and Paraceratheriidae, are extinct. The only extant family is the Rhinocerotidae (true rhinoceroses), which survives as five living species. The extinct members of this superfamily are often called "rhinoceroses" alongside members of the family Rhinocerotidae, though they include genera, such as Paraceratherium, which do not closely resemble modern rhinoceroses.
Taxonomy
The cladogram below follows a phylogenetic analysis by Bai et al. (2020):[1]
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References
- ^ Bai, B.; Meng, J.; Zhang, C.; Gong, Y.-X.; Wang, Y.-Q. (2020). "The origin of Rhinocerotoidea and phylogeny of Ceratomorpha (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)". Communications Biology. 3 (1): 509. doi:10.1038/s42003-020-01205-8.