antiquitatis to other Late Pleistocene-recent rhinoceros species based on genomic data given below. A cladogram showing the relationships of C. The closest living relative of Coelodonta is the Sumatran rhinoceros, and the genus is also closely related to the extinct genus Stephanorhinus. The woolly rhinoceros was the most recent species of the genus Coelodonta. This name comes from the Greek words κοιλος ( koilos, "hollow") and ὀδούς ( odoús "tooth"), from the depression in the rhino's molar structure, giving the scientific name Coelodonta antiquitatis, "hollow-tooth of antiquity". The geologist Heinrich Georg Bronn moved the species to Coelodonta in 1831 because of its differences in dental formation with members of the Rhinoceros genus. In 1799, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach studied rhinoceros bones from the collection of the University of Göttingen, and proposed the scientific name Rhinoceros antiquitatis. In 1772, Pallas acquired a head and two legs of a rhinoceros from the locals in Irkutsk, and named the species Rhinoceros lenenesis (after the Lena River).
One of the earliest scientific descriptions of an ancient rhinoceros species was made in 1769, when the naturalist Peter Simon Pallas wrote a report on his expeditions to Siberia where he found a skull and two horns in the permafrost. Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert maintained the belief that the horns were the claws of giant birds, and classified the animal under the name Gryphus antiquitatis, meaning " griffin of anquity". In 1590, it was used as the basis for the head on a statue of a lindworm. A rhinoceros skull was found in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1335, and was believed to be that of a dragon. Native peoples of Siberia believed their horns were the claws of giant birds. Woolly rhinoceros remains have been known long before the species was described, and were the basis for some mythical creatures. Taxonomy Molar tooth showing the cavity the genus was named for The species range contracted towards Siberia beginning around 17,000 years ago, with the youngest known records being around 14,000 years old in northeast Siberia, coinciding with the Bølling–Allerød warming, which likely disrupted its habitat. Mummified carcasses preserved in permafrost and many bone remains of woolly rhinoceroses have been found. Images of woolly rhinoceroses are found among cave paintings in Europe and Asia. The woolly rhinoceros was covered with long, thick hair that allowed it to survive in the extremely cold, harsh mammoth steppe. It had a massive hump reaching from its shoulder and fed mainly on herbaceous plants that grew in the steppe. The woolly rhinoceros was a member of the Pleistocene megafauna.
The woolly rhinoceros ( Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene epoch.
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