Sinotherium is an extinct genus of single-horned elasmotheriine rhinocerotids that lived from the late Miocene to Early Pliocene. It was ancestral to Elasmotherium, demonstrating a very important evol
Resoration of S. lagreii alongside an Ailurid
Elasmotherium is an extinct genus of very large rhinoceros that lived in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and East Asia from the late Miocene through to the Late Pleistocene, until at least 39,000 years a
Sinotherium
…genus of single-horned elasmotheriine rhinocerotids that lived from the late Miocene (Tortonian - Messinian) to Early Pliocene. It was ancestral to Elasmotherium, demonstrating a very important evolutionary transition from nasal-horned elasmotheriines to frontal-horned elasmotheriines. Its fossils have been found…
Elasmotherium skeleton, Azov Museum
The "Moscow mandible", holotype of E. sibiricum
Cheek teeth of Elasmotherium sibiricum, showing thin enamel exhibiting laminated folding from which the genus takes its name
First published restoration (1878) of E. sibiricum, by Rashevsky, under supervision of A. F. Brant