''Coelodonta tologoijensis'' is an extinct species of rhinoceros belonging to the genus ''

Coelodonta ''Coelodonta'' (, from the Ancient Greek κοῖλος (''koîlos''), meaning "hollow", and οδούς (''odoús''), meaning "tooth", in reference to the deep grooves of their molar (tooth), molars) is an extinct genus of Eurasian rhinoceroses th ...

,'' related to the

woolly rhinoceros The woolly rhinoceros (''Coelodonta antiquitatis'') is an extinct species of rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene epoch. The woolly rhinoceros was a member of the Pleistocene megafauna. The woolly rhinoceros was larg ...

. It is known from fossils found in

Siberia Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states ...

and Mongolia, dating from the

Early Pleistocene The Early Pleistocene is an unofficial epoch (geology), sub-epoch in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, representing the earliest division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. It is currently esti ...

Middle Pleistocene The Chibanian, more widely known as the Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale or a Stage (stratigraphy), stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocen ...

. One skull found in the Kyffhauser hills near the town of Bad Frankenhausen,

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, dating to approximately 450,000 years was formerly assigned to the species by researchers, which would have made it the earliest known member of ''Coelodonta'' in

Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...

, However, a 2022 study refuted the assignment of the Bad Frankenhausen skull to ''C. tologoijensis'', interpreting it as the skull of the woolly rhinoceros (''Coelodonta antiquitatis'') instead, meaning that the species is currently confined to Asia.

References

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