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Heller, The White Rhinoceros (1913), Pl. 22

Image of Ceratotherium simum simum

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Description: English: PLATE 22 Illustrating sexual differences in skulls Nasal boss much larger and zygomatic breadth much greater in males. Fig. 1. Ceratotherium simum cottoni, male, old; from Rhino Camp, Lado Enclave; weathered skull. No. 164598, U. S. National Museum. Fig. 2. Ceratotherium simum cottoni, male, adult; from Rhino Camp, Lado Enclave ; weathered skull. No. 164596, U. S. National Museum. Fig. 3. Ceratotherium simum cottoni, female, old; from Rhino Camp, Lado Enclave ; shot by Col. Theodore Roosevelt, January 29, 1910. No. 164595, U. S. National Museum. Fig. 4. Ceratotherium simum simum, female, old; from South Africa; exact locality not known; specimen in the department of paleontology of the American Museum of Natural History. This specimen shows much larger teeth than any of the female skulls of cottoni. Date: 1913. Source: Heller, Edmund (1913) The White Rhinoceros, Smithsonian Institution. Author: Edmund Heller (?).

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