The fauna mainly consists of Artiodactyla (Cervidae, Tragulidae, Giraffidae, Suidae), Perissodactyla (Equidae,
Rhinocerotidae), Proboscidea and Primates (Khan et al., 2013).
Baluchitherium, extinct primitive rhinoceros belonging to the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebra, class Mammalia, order Perissodactyla, family
Rhinocerotidae and genus Baluchitherium of the Oligocene (about 20 to 30 million years ago) age.
He is intently concentrating and reading aloud a rather curious entry in the dictionary: "rhinoceros--any of certain large, powerful, thick-skinned, perissodactyl mammals of the family
rhinocerotidae." Why on earth would Montag be studying rhinoceroses?
Of these 65 clades, we eliminated 33 because their members had large body size or were primates (Loridae, Galagonidae, Cercopithecinae, Colobinae, Hominidae, Canidae, Acinonychinae, Felinae, Pantherinae, Herpestinae, Hyaeninae, Protelinae, Lutrinae, Mellivorinac, Mustelinae, Nandinimae, Viverrinae, Elephantidae,
Rhinocerotidae, Orycteropodidae, Aepycerotinae, Alcelaphinae, Antilopinae, Bovinae, Cephalophinae, Hippotraginae, Reduncinae, Phacochoerinae, Suinae, Hippopotamidae, Tragulidae, Giraffidae, Manidae).