Bugtitherium Temporal range: Oligocene,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
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 Baluchistan, Pakistan.[1][2]
Incisor teeth that Pilgrim (1908) referred to Bugtitherium were recognized as instead belonging to the giant paraceratheriid Paraceratherium.[3]