Meaning & use
Baluchitherium
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An extinct genus of giant, hornless, rhinoceros-like mammal from Central Asia, one of the largest land mammals known to have existed.
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Museum reconstructions show the baluchitherium towering well above a modern elephant.
Fossil hunters in the 1910s named the baluchitherium after the Baluchistan region where its remains were found.
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Now generally classified under the genus Paraceratherium, though "baluchitherium" remains a familiar name in popular paleontology.
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Paraceratherium
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