Bugtirhinus
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| Bugtirhinus Temporal range: Early Miocene
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Subfamily: | †Elasmotheriinae |
| Genus: | †Bugtirhinus Antoine and Welcomme, 2000 |
| Species: | †B. praecursor
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| Binomial name | |
| †Bugtirhinus praecursor Antoine and Welcomme, 2000
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Bugtirhinus is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid of the subfamily Elasmotheriinae that lived during the Early Mocene in the Bugti Hills of what is now Pakistan.[1] It is the earliest known member of Elasmotheriina.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]Bugtirhinus was named by Antoine and Welcomme (2000). Its type is Bugtirhinus praecursor. It was assigned to Elasmotheriini by Antoine and Welcomme (2000); and to Iranotheriinae by Guérin and Pickford (2003),[3][4] and to Elasmotheriinae by later publications.[2]
Description
[edit | edit source]Bugtirhinus was relatively small, around the size of the living Malayan tapir.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Bugtirhinus, basic info
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- ^ P.-O. Antoine and J.-L. Welcomme. 2000. A new rhinoceros from the lower Miocene of the Bugti Hills, Baluchistan, Pakistan: the earliest elasmotheriine. Palaeontology 43(5):795-816
- ^ C. Guérin and M. Pickford. 2003. Ougandatherium napakense nov. gen. nov. sp., le plus ancien Rhinocerotidae Iranotheriinae d’Afrique. Annales de Paléontologie 89(1):1-35
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