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Paraceratherium grangeri

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae

Taxonomy
Baluchitherium grangeri was named by Osborn (1923). Its type specimen is AMNH 18650, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loh, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in the Hsanda Gol Formation of Mongolia.

It was synonymized subjectively with Indricotherium transouralicum by Gromova (1959), Fortelius and Kappelman (1993); it was recombined as Paraceratherium grangeri by Qiu and Wang (2007).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. albigense

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Baluchitherium grangeri Osborn
2007Paraceratherium grangeri Qiu and Wang

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
—Tapiromorpha(Haeckel 1873)
—Ceratomorpha(Wood 1937)
superfamilyRhinocerotoidea
familyParaceratheriidaeOsborn 1923
subfamilyParaceratheriinaeOsborn 1923
genusParaceratheriumForster Cooper 1911
speciesgrangeri()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Paraceratherium grangeri Osborn 1923
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingsubo
Diet: browsersubo
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-31 15:03:12
Modified: 2005-08-31 17:03:12
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Colbert and Schoch 1998, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Eocene to the top of the Early/Lower Oligocene or 37.20000 to 28.40000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9China (Nei Mongol) Paraceratherium grangeri (180942)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4China (Nei Mongol) Paraceratherium grangeri (176066)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4Mongolia Baluchitherium grangeri (type locality: 53979)