Bugtitherium
| Bugtitherium Temporal range: Oligocene, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | †Anthracotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Bugtitherium Pilgrim, 1908 |
| Species: | †B. grandincisivum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Bugtitherium grandincisivum Pilgrim, 1908 | |
Bugtitherium is an extinct genus of anthracothere found in late Oligocene (Chattian) deposits in the Bugti Hills of Balochistan, Pakistan.[1][2]
Incisor teeth that Pilgrim (1908) referred to Bugtitherium were recognized as instead belonging to the giant paraceratheriid Paraceratherium.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Pilgrim GE (1908) The Tertiary and Post-Tertiary freshwater deposits of Baluchistan and Sind with notices of new vertebrates. Rec Geol Surv India 37:139–167
- ↑ Grégoire Métais, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Syed Rafiqul Hassan Baqri, Mouloud Benammi, Jean-Yves Crochet, Dario Franceschi, Laurent Marivaux, Jean-Loup Welcomme. (2006) New remains of the enigmatic cetartiodactyl Bugtitherium grandincisivum Pilgrim, 1908, from the upper Oligocene of the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan). Naturwissenschaften 93:7, 348-355.
- ↑ Cooper, C. F. (1924). "On the Skull and Dentition of Paraceratherium bugtiense: A Genus of Aberrant Rhinoceroses from the Lower Miocene Deposits of Dera Bugti". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 212 (391–401): 369–394. doi:10.1098/rstb.1924.0009.