13.5" Fossil Rhino (Stephanorhinus) Left Mandible - Germany

Fossil Rhino (Stephanorhinus) Left Mandible - Germany #200792

This is a gorgeous, 13.5" long jaw section (left side of mandible) of Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis, an extinct rhinoceros from the Rhine River Gravel Deposits of Germany. The jaw has four of it's original molars still in place. It's Pleistocene in age, or approximately 120,000 years old. It didn't require any crack repair and the bone is beautifully preserved. There are spots of rock still attached to the bone, however none of it has undergone gap fill restoration.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

The gravel deposits along the Rhine River used to produce a large number of Pleistocene fossils while miners quarried for gravel aggregate. They have become much harder to come by in recent years as the quarry operations have become more mechanized, often destroying fossils in the process.

Stephanorhinus, or Merck's rhinoceros, is an extinct genus of rhinoceros native to northern Eurasia that lived during the Lower to Early Late Pleistocene epoch. It had two horns and was a relatively large rhino. It weighed over 3,000 kilograms (6,600 pounds) and measured about 2 meters (6.56 feet) tall and 4 meters (13.12 feet) in length, similar to a modern white rhino.

SPECIES

Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis

AGE

Pleistocene

LOCATION

Rhine River Gravel Deposit, Germany

SIZE

13.5 x 4.85 x 2.1"

13.5" Fossil Rhino (Stephanorhinus) Left Mandible - Germany

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