Bugtirhinus Antoine and Welcomme 2000 (rhinoceros)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Full reference: 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

Parent taxon: Elasmotheriina according to P.-O. Antoine et al. 2010

See also Antoine et al. 2002, Antoine and Welcomme 2000 and Guérin and Pickford 2003

Sister taxa: Caementodon, Diceratherium, Elasmotheriini, Hispanotherium, Huaqingtherium, Iranotherium, Kenyatherium, Procoelodonta, Sinotherium

Subtaxa: Bugtirhinus praecursor

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: found only at Dera Bugti Level 4 (Miocene of Pakistan)

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