Paraceratherium Forster Cooper 1911 (odd-toed ungulate)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae

Invalid subtaxa: Baluchitherium Forster Cooper 1913, Indricotherium Borissiak 1916, Thaumastotherium Forster-Cooper 1913 [replaced name]

Parent taxon: Paraceratheriinae according to H. Wang et al. 2016

See also Carroll 1988, Dashzeveg 1996, Forster-Cooper 1913, Fortelius and Kappelman 1993, Holbrook 1999, Osborn 1923, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Qiu et al. 2004, Qiu and Wang 2007, Radinsky 1966, Sen et al. 2011 and Ye et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Aralotherium, Dzungariotherium, Juxia, Pristinotherium, Turpanotherium, Urtinotherium, Benaratherium

Subtaxa: Baluchitherium osborni Paraceratherium asiaticum Paraceratherium bugtiense Paraceratherium grangeri Paraceratherium huangheense Paraceratherium lepidum Paraceratherium linxiaense

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Type: Paraceratherium bugtiense

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Oligocene to Miocene of Pakistan (1 collection)

• Oligocene of Bulgaria (1), China (12), Kazakhstan (8), Mongolia (2), Pakistan (3), Spain (1), Turkey (2)

• Eocene of China (3)

Total: 33 collections including 38 occurrences

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