Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 238110
Alternative combination: Thaumastotherium osborni
Full reference: C. Forster-Cooper. 1913. Thaumastotherium osbosni, a new genus of perissodactyl from the Upper Oligocene deposits of the Bugti Hills of Baluchistan. Preliminary notice. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12:376-381
Belongs to Baluchitherium according to C. Forster-Cooper 1913
Sister taxa: Paraceratherium asiaticum, Paraceratherium bugtiense, Paraceratherium grangeri, Paraceratherium huangheense, Paraceratherium lepidum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Bugti Hills (Forster-Cooper collection), which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in Pakistan
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Average measurements (in mm): femur length 1140.0, humerus length 850.0
Estimated body mass: 2.69 tons based on femur length and humerus length