Bugtirhinus

Bugtirhinus
Temporal range: Early Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Subfamily: †Elasmotheriinae
Genus: †Bugtirhinus
Antoine and Welcomme, 2000
Species:
†B. praecursor
Binomial name
†Bugtirhinus praecursor
Antoine and Welcomme, 2000

Bugtirhinus is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid of the subfamily Elasmotheriinae that lived during the Early Mocene in the Bugti Hills of what is now Pakistan. It is the earliest known member of Elasmotheriina.

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