单词 | baluchitherium |
释义 | baluchitheriumn. Palaeontology. A gigantic extinct land mammal of which remains have been found in the upper Oligocene deposits of the Bugti hills of Baluchistan. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) > [noun] > with hoof in more than two parts > family Rhinocerotidae > extinct or fossil types elasmotherium1879 rhinocerotid1895 baluchitherium1913 1913 C. Forster-Cooper in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 504 I learn that the generic name Thaumastotherium proposed..is preoccupied. The generic name Baluchitherium is therefore proposed as a substitute. 1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 217/2 It was a baluchitherium, the greatest of all varieties of rhinoceros. It stood thirteen feet at the shoulder, and its neck, relatively as long as a horse's, gave it an additional reach of four or five feet. 1966 C. A. W. Guggisberg S.O.S. Rhino ii. 26 With a length of twenty-eight feet and standing seventeen to eighteen feet at the shoulder, Baluchitherium equalled or exceeded the imperial mammoth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1913 |
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