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Billia, E.M. 2001. First finding of woolly rhino Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799) (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) in Gargano (Apulia, southern Italy). In Podobina V.M., Rodygin S.A., Savina N.I. & Tat’yanin G.M., eds: Proceedings of the II International Symposium “Evolution of Life on the Earth” 2: 471-474, 5 figs, 1 tab, 1 Pl, Izd-vo Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Tomsk.

First finding of woolly rhino Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799) (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) in Gargano (Apulia, southern Italy)

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Location Europe Subject Taxonomy Species Fossil Rhinos
Note
Location Europe Subject Taxonomy Species Fossil Rhinos

This C. antiquitatis find represents one of the southernmost records of the species in Eurasia.

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