Bugtitherium

Bugtitherium
Temporal range: Oligocene, 28–23 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Family:†Anthracotheriidae
Genus:†Bugtitherium
Pilgrim, 1908

† denotes extinct

Type species
†Bugtitherium grandincisivum
Pilgrim, 1908

Bugtitherium is an extinct genus of anthracothere found in late Oligocene (Chattian deposits in the Bugti Hills of Baluchistan, Pakistan.[1][2]

Incisor teeth that Pilgrim (1908) referred to Bugtitherium were recognized as instead belonging to the giant paraceratheriid Paraceratherium.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
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