 | Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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| The cheek-teeth, however, although numerically the same as in the Indian rhinoceros, show a simpler pattern, while their crowns wear into ridges instead of a uniformly flat plane. This may be taken to indicate that the present species feeds chiefly upon twigs and leaves. |
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| Kampen, P.N. van 1905 Die Tympanalgegend des Saugetierschadels. Morphologisches Jahrbuch 34: 321-722, figs. 1-96 |
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| Wall of the middle ear (Paukenh?hle). In an adult, but not old skull of Rhinoceros sumatrensis I found the wall of the middle ear constructed as follows (figs. 61, 62). The small Tympanicum, which is only connected to the long Processus Folii, is very uneven in form. It forms the side-wall of ... |
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| Weber, M. 1904 Die Saugetiere: Einfuhrung in die Anatomie und Systematik der recenten und fossilen Mammalia. Jena, Gustav Fischer, pp. i-xii, 1-806 |
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| genus Dicerorhinus: Processus postglenoideus and posttympanicus separated. Nasalia small, pointed in front.
Genus Rhinoceros: Processus postglenoideus and posttympanicus not separated. Nasalia pointed in front.
Genus Diceros: Processus postglenoideus and posttympanicus partly separated. Na... |
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| Weber, M. 1904 Die Saugetiere: Einfuhrung in die Anatomie und Systematik der recenten und fossilen Mammalia. Jena, Gustav Fischer, pp. i-xii, 1-806 |
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| I 1/0, C 0/1, the lateral upper and medial lower incisors are the most obvious. |
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| Weber, M. 1904 Die Saugetiere: Einfuhrung in die Anatomie und Systematik der recenten und fossilen Mammalia. Jena, Gustav Fischer, pp. i-xii, 1-806 |
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| genus Dicerorhinus: molars brachyodont, without cement. Ectoloph bend upwards with a large Parastyl. |
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| Nehring, A. 1901 Ein Schaedel des Rhinoceros simus im Naturhist. Museum zu Hamburg. Zoologische Anzeiger 24: 225-228, fig. 1 |
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| skull in mus. Hamburg; Individual not quite adult, as the last upper molar is not fully erupted. The shape of the skull, compared to R. bicornis and R. keitloa, is quite elongated. The Crista of the rear part is relatively strongly developed and goes back far beyond the condylen. The incisor p... |
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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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| The skull is much shorter than that of R. simus and the angle formed by the parietal and occipital surfaces at the crest is much more nearly a right angle; the front part of the mandible too, is not nearly so depressed and spatulated as in R. simus. |
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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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| Dentition i. 2 to 0/ 2 to 0, c. 0/ 1 to 0, pm 4/4, m. 3/3 = 28 to 38; incisors and canines variable in number, often absent, premolars and molars in a continuous series, and resembling one another in general plan, except that the anterior one is considerably smaller and often deciduous; upper mol... |
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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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| As in the other species there are no incisors or canines in either jaw, though indistinct marks of the sockets can be seen; moreover, the premaxillae are much reduced, and consist only of two small nodules of bone at the tips of the maxillae. |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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| Female Rhinoceros sondaicus in Siamese Museum. Only one pair of incisors showed through the gums in the lower jaw, they were tusk-like; none showed in the upper jaw, the gum forming a hard pad in the place where the incisors of a horse would be. |
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