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Paraceratherium
Taxonomy
Paraceratherium was named by Forster Cooper (1911). It is not extant. Its type is Paraceratherium bugtiense.
It was assigned to Hyracodontidae by Radinsky (1966), Carroll (1988), Ye et al. (2003); to Indricotheriidae by Holbrook (1999), Qiu et al. (2004); to Indricotheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Sen et al. (2011); and to Paraceratheriinae by Qiu and Wang (2007), Wang et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Hyracodontidae by Radinsky (1966), Carroll (1988), Ye et al. (2003); to Indricotheriidae by Holbrook (1999), Qiu et al. (2004); to Indricotheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Sen et al. (2011); and to Paraceratheriinae by Qiu and Wang (2007), Wang et al. (2016).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1911 | Paraceratherium Forster Cooper p. 711 |
| 1913 | Baluchitherium Forster Cooper |
| 1913 | Thaumastotherium Forster-Cooper p. 377 |
| 1916 | Indricotherium Borissiak p. 131 |
| 1923 | Baluchitherium Osborn |
| 1966 | Indricotherium Radinsky p. 635 |
| 1966 | Paraceratherium Radinsky p. 635 |
| 1988 | Baluchitherium Carroll |
| 1988 | Indricotherium Carroll |
| 1988 | Paraceratherium Carroll |
| 1989 | Indricotherium Prothero and Schoch p. 534 |
| 1989 | Paraceratherium Prothero and Schoch p. 534 |
| 1996 | Indricotherium Dashzeveg p. 9 |
| 1999 | Paraceratherium Holbrook p. 346 |
| 2003 | Paraceratherium Ye et al. p. 223 |
| 2003 | Indricotherium Ye et al. p. 228 |
| 2004 | Indricotherium Qiu et al. p. 191 |
| 2004 | Paraceratherium Qiu et al. p. 191 |
| 2007 | Paraceratherium Qiu and Wang |
| 2011 | Paraceratherium Sen et al. p. 414 |
| 2016 | Paraceratherium Wang et al. |
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G. †Paraceratherium Forster Cooper 1911
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†Paraceratherium asiaticum Borissiak 1923
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Invalid names: Indricotherium transouralicum Pavlova 1922 [synonym]
†Paraceratherium bugtiense Forster Cooper 1911
†Paraceratherium grangeri Osborn 1923
†Paraceratherium huangheense Li et al. 2017
†Paraceratherium lepidum Xu and Wang 1978
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Invalid names: Paraceratherium zhajremensis Bayshashov 1988 [synonym]
†Paraceratherium linxiaense Deng et al. 2021
Invalid names: Baluchitherium Forster Cooper 1913 [synonym], Indricotherium Borissiak 1916 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available