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Boylan, P.J. 1967. The pleistocene mammalia of the Sewer-by-Hessle buried cliff, East Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 36 (1): 115-125.

The pleistocene mammalia of the Sewer-by-Hessle buried cliff, East Yorkshire

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Location Europe Subject Taxonomy Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

D. hemitoechus was certainly a slender-limbed, two-horned rhinoceros allied to the present-day asiatic Rhinocerotinae rather than to the African Dicerotinae.

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Location Europe Subject Taxonomy Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Dicerorhinus Gloger, 1841, type species R. sumatrensis 'Cuvier' = Fischer. This is an objective synonym of Didermocerus Brookes, 1828. A request has been made to ICZN to determine which name should be used.

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