baluchitherium Palæont.
(bəluːtʃɪˈθɪərɪəm)
[mod.L., f. prec. + Gr. θηρίον beast.]
A gigantic extinct land mammal of which remains have been found in the upper Oligocene deposits of the Bugti hills of Baluchistan.
| 1913 C. Forster-Cooper in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. XII. 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. |