Dicerorhinus

 ( Mammal Genera ) 

Dicerorhinus (Greek: "two" (dio), "horn" (keratos), "nose" (rhinos)) is a genus of the family Rhinocerotidae, consisting of a single extant species, the two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros ( D. sumatrensis), and several Extinction species. The genus likely originated from the Late Miocene of central Myanmar. Many species previously placed in this genus probably belong elsewhere .

• † Dicerorhinus fusuiensis originally described as Rhinoceros fusuiensis Early Pleistocene, South China.
• † Dicerorhinus gwebinensis Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein et al., 2008 Known from a skull of Pliocene-Early Pleistocene age found in Myanmar. Some authors have considered the skull not distinguishable from that of D. sumatrensis.

Historically, Dicerorhinus was a wastebasket taxon. Revisions by several authors over the years have removed many species:

Transferred to Stephanorhinus

• Dicerorhinus merckii
• Dicerorhinus hemitoechus
• Dicerorhinus etruscus
• Dicerorhinus yunchuchenensis
• Dicerorhinus jeanvireti
• Dicerorhinus choukoutienensis (synonym of Merck's rhinoceros)
• Dicerorhinus orientalis (synonym of Merck's rhinoceros)
• Dicerorhinus nipponicus

Transferred to Dihoplus

• Dicerorhinus megarhinus
• Dicerorhinus schleiermacheri
• Dicerorhinus ringstroemi

Transferred to Caementodon

• Dicerorhinus caucasicus

Transferred to Lartetotherium

• Dicerorhinus sansaniensis
• Dicerorhinus cixianensis Chen and Wu, 1976 Deng, T.; Li, S., 2023. Restudy of Rhinocerotini fossils from the Miocene Jiulongkou fauna of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 61: 198-211 - DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.230630

Transferred to Rusingaceros

• Dicerorhinus leakeyi

Placement of the Sumatran rhinoceros among recent and subfossil rhinoceros species based on nuclear genomes (Liu, 2021)

Bayesian morphological phylogeny (Pandolfi, 2023) Note: This excludes living African rhinoceros species.

• Groves, Colin P., and Fred Kurt (1972). " Dicerorhinus sumatrensis". Mammalian Species (21): 1–6.
• "A new species of Dicerorhinus (Rhinocerotidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Myanmar"