Elasmotherium
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| phylum | Chordata | Elasmotherium is an extinct genus of large rhinoceros endemic to Eurasia during the Late Pliocene through the Pleistocene, existing from 2.6 Ma to at least as late as 39,000 years ago in the Late Pleistocene. It was the last surviving member of Elasmotheriinae, a distinctive group of rhinoceroses that had separated from the ancestry of living rhinoceroses by at least 35 million years ago according to fossils and estimated around 47.4 million years ago based on molecular clock.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Perissodactyla | |
| family | Rhinocerotidae | |
| subfamily | †Elasmotheriinae | |
| genus | †Elasmotherium | |
| Temporal range | Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene |
