 Reference Base  The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora a... |
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Sclater, W.L., 1900. The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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Africa |
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Taxonomy - Evolution |
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White Rhino |
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In the middle and later portions of the Tertiary epochs rhinoceroses were spread over the rest of the Old World, even within the arctic and subarctic regions, where roamed the woolly rhinoceros (R. antiquitatis), considered to be closely allied to the white rhinoceros; hitherto no fossil species have been found in South Africa.
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