| Bugtitherium Temporal range: Oligocene,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | †Anthracotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Bugtitherium Pilgrim, 1908 |
| Species: | †B. grandincisivum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Bugtitherium grandincisivum Pilgrim, 1908
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Bugtitherium is an extinct genus of anthracothere found in late Oligocene (Chattian) deposits in the Bugti Hills of Balochistan, Pakistan.12
Incisor teeth that Pilgrim (1908) referred to Bugtitherium were recognized as instead belonging to the giant paraceratheriid Paraceratherium.3
References
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.