Bugtirhinus

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Bugtirhinus
Temporal range: Early Miocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily:† Elasmotheriinae
Genus:† Bugtirhinus
Antoine and Welcomme, 2000
Species:
†B. praecursor
Binomial name
†Bugtirhinus praecursor
Antoine and Welcomme, 2000

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]

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Taxonomy

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

Bugtirhinus was relatively small, around the size of the living Malayan tapir. [2]

References

  1. ↑ PaleoBiology Database: Bugtirhinus, basic info
  2. 1 2 3 Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Becker, Damien; Pandolfi, Luca; Geraads, Denis (2025), Melletti, Mario; Talukdar, Bibhab; Balfour, David (eds.), "Evolution and Fossil Record of Old World Rhinocerotidae" , Rhinos of the World, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 31–48, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-67169-2_2, ISBN   978-3-031-67168-5 , retrieved 2025-03-01
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ 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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