Bugtitherium
Extinct genus of artiodactyls
Bugtitherium Temporal range: Oligocene, 28–23 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
---|---|
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
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 Baluchistan, Pakistan.[1][2]
Incisor teeth that Pilgrim (1908) referred to Bugtitherium were recognized as instead belonging to the giant paraceratheriid Paraceratherium.[3]
References
- ^ 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.