IX.-On the skull and dentition of paraceratherium bugtiense: a genus of aberrant rhinoceroses from the lower Miocene deposits of Dera Bugti

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In 1911 a preliminary notice was published of a rhinocerotine lower jaw from the Bugti deposits of Baluchistan. This specimen shows a very peculiar feature of the front teeth, which instead of being procumbent, or even upturned, as in other rhinoceroses, are formed into a pair of downwardly turned tusks. On the strength of this well-marked character a new genus Paraceratherium was formed for the species. The posterior part of the lower jaw and loose upper and lower teeth had already been discovered in the same locality by Dr. Pilgrim, who, being without the anterior parts of the jaw, described the form as Aceratherium bugtiense . The same investigator had already described some curious teeth, which he had found lying seperately, as possible incisors of a skull which he named Bugtitherium grandincisivum, an animal which is possibly an Entelodont, but is still insufficiently known. These teeth are now known to be the lower incisors of Paraceratherium .

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