Coelodonta thibetana

Coelodonta thibetana is a fossil species of rhinoceros that lived during the Pliocene epoch, approximately 3.6 million years ago. The oldest known specimen was discovered on the Plateau of Tibet. This species is part of the genus Coelodonta, which also includes the more well-known woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis).1

Woolly rhinoceroses, in general, were massive, two-horned mammals covered in thick hair, inhabiting Europe, North Africa, and Asia during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. They were depicted in prehistoric art and likely went extinct due to rapid climate changes at the end of the last ice age, rather than being hunted to extinction by humans.1