Modern rhinos are descendants of larger animals, standing about 5 meters (16 feet) tall on their shoulders, weighing approximately 15-10 tons (16-22 tons). Their heads were probably taller than giraffes and weighed two to three times as much as African elephants. A discovery of this Leviathan at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau has helped them fill the gap in the family tree. Most people do not recognize them as rhinos because they face a member of the lucky paracereterium (the largest rhinoceros genus), as they lacked horns, usually seen as a definition of rhinoceros. , But who can identify the real identity under the skin.
Examples of Paracereberium have been found throughout large regions of Asia, but were generally so fragmentary that it was difficult to determine which represented the common species and which was different. Details in Communication Biology A new paraceretharium skull, spiritual and vertebrate of another member of the same species has been found in the Lincia Basin at the northeastern tip of Tibet. These date back 26.5 million years, and have been named P. Lincolns. Dr. Tao Deng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and co-authors consider the closest relative of their new discovery to be P. lepidum, a slightly smaller species living at the same time.
However, they argued that it was p. There is a “strong relationship” with the Bugtians, the only species from which we can confidently describe enough fossils. P. The location and features of Linuxians may offer the author a line descended from the earlier, smaller, but still giant rhinoceros, whose p. The relationship with Bugtiens was unclear. The connection also tells us something about the time of the rise of the Tibetan Plateau.
Back in Oligocene (33.9-23 million years ago) the plateau and indeed the whole of Asia was very different than it is today. India’s conflict with Asia was recent, so the plateau was not so high. Meanwhile, much of what is now Central Asia was still covered in the Tethys Sea. P. The relationship between Lingseens and P. Bugtiens indicates that there was a way for such animals from Pakistan to China at that time. Paracereum was developed in China, the authors argued, before crossing the imperfect plateau to achieve Pakistan’s most famous appearance.
