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Claude Guérin, « Diceros douariensis nov. sp., un Rhinocéros du Mio-Pliocène de Tunisie du Nord », Travaux et Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de Lyon, ID : 10670/1.bonf6z
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In 1934 some rhinoceroses remains of the miopliocene age, wich may belong to two individuals at least, were discovered in the Douaria iron-mine (North Tunisia). The same year they had been determined as Rhinoceros pachygnathus Wagner and mentioned on a short list of fauna by F. Roman and M. Solignac. No description was ever published though this species has never been so far recorded in Africa. The present study gives a detailed description of these remains. They are also compared with the two known species of the Diceros genus, the D. pachygnathus of the miopliocene age of Europe and the D. bicornis of the Pleistocene and Present of Africa. The Douaria rhinoceros indubitably belongs to the Diceros genus. However it presents enough characters to be singled out as a particular species, D. douariensis nov sp. To some extent the new species would allow one to fill the gap that is found, both in space and time, between the two already known species of the Diceros genus.