Bugtitherium

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

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.