Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis, also known as Merck's rhinoceros, is an extinct species of rhinoceros belonging to the genus Stephanorhinus that lived in Eurasia from the end of the Early Pleistocene u
Dicerorhinus kirchbergensis
Skeleton of "Dicerorhinus nipponicus" from Japan, which is now recognised as synonym of Merck's rhinoceros (note that skull of the mount is not accurate to the real skull of S. kirchbergensis)
Restoration of two Merck's rhinoceros in open wooded landscape with oak trees during the Last Interglacial (130-115,000 years ago) in Europe
Landscape of Central Europe during the Last Interglacial (c. 130-115,000 years ago), featuring large herbivorous animals including Merck's rhinoceros, as well as straight-tusked elephant, wild boar, wild horse and aurochs. Other featured animals include western jackdaw, corn crake, black grouse, steppe lemming, the extinct ground squirrel Spermophilus citelloides, European hare and European hamster
Woolly rhinoceros
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The woolly rhinoceros is an extinct species of rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene epoch. The woolly rhinoceros was large, comparable in size to the largest living rhinoc
Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis
…that its closest living relative is the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), though it shares a closer common ancestry with the extinct woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), from which it suggested to have diverged around 5.5 million years ago. Truncated cladogram of Rhinocerotinae, showing the…
Coelodonta antiquitatis
Molar tooth showing the cavity the genus was named for
Woolly rhinoceros skull
Woolly rhinoceros (right), alongside woolly mammoths, wild horses and cave lions with a reindeer carcass during the Last Glacial Period in northern Spain, by Mauricio Antón