Discovery of the skull of Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis (Jäger, 1839) above the Arctic Circle

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Kirillova, Irina V., Chernova, Olga F., Van der Made, Jan, Kukarskihd, Vladimir V., Shapiro, Beth, Plichtg, Johannes van der, Shidlovskiya, Fedor K., Heintzman, Peter D., Kolfschoten, Thijs van, Zanina, Oksana G.
• Other Authors: Russian Foundation for Basic Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2017
• Subjects: Genome; Diet; Skull; Stephanorhinus; Extreme NE Russia; Arctic; Chondon; Yakutia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/194240; https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.53; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002261

The skull of the extinct rhinoceros Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis (Jäger, 1839) was discovered in the Chondon River valley (Arctic Yakutia, Russia) during the summer of 2014. This is the first find of Stephanorhinus above the Arctic Circle, expanding significantly the known geographic range of the g...