''Coelodonta tologoijensis'' is an extinct species of

woolly rhino The woolly rhinoceros (''Coelodonta antiquitatis'') is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene epoch and survived until the end of the last glacial period. The woolly rhinoceros was a me ...

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Coelodonta ''Coelodonta'' (, from the Greek κοιλία, ''koilía'' and οδούς, ''odoús'', "hollow tooth", in reference to the deep grooves of their molars) is an extinct genus of rhinoceros that lived in Eurasia between 3.7 million years to 10,000 ...

''). It was originally described as an Asian species. Subsequently one skull found in the Kyffhauser hills near the town of

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, was assigned to the species by researchers, which would make it the earliest known woolly rhino in

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. The species was thought to have migrated to Europe between around 478,000 and 424,000 years ago during a cold, arid period. However, a 2022 study refuted the assignment of the Bad Frankenhausen skull to ''C. tologoijensis'', interpreting it as the skull of the

woolly rhinoceros The woolly rhinoceros (''Coelodonta antiquitatis'') is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene epoch and survived until the end of the last glacial period. The woolly rhinoceros was a me ...

(''Coelodonta antiquitatis'') instead.

References

Woolly rhino's ancient migration
BBC News, Monday, 17 November 2008 Pleistocene rhinoceroses Pleistocene mammals of Asia Coelodonta {{paleo-oddtoedungulate-stub