Term
Baluchitherium
Better known as Paraceratherium
Roy Chapman Andrews wrote about Baluchitherium in two books. Here is what each book says, with excerpts.
- 1884–1943
Under a Lucky StarRoy Chapman Andrews
A gigantic hornless rhinoceros of the Oligocene — the largest land mammal that ever lived, standing some eighteen feet at the shoulder. Granger's party quarried its huge bones near Tsagan Nor; it is now usually called Paraceratherium.
I went to sleep very late that night, my mind full of Baluchitherium and had a vivid dream of finding the creature's skull in a canyon about fifteen miles…Listen from here · chapter 19, 17:45…discovered, including the fine skull and parts of the skeleton of Baluchitherium the largest known land mammal.Listen from here · chapter 20, 1:46 - 1922–1925
On the Trail of Ancient ManRoy Chapman Andrews
A gigantic hornless rhinoceros of the Oligocene — the largest land mammal that ever lived, standing some eighteen feet at the shoulder. Granger's party quarried its huge bones in the Gobi; it is now usually called Paraceratherium.
…a meaning: it carried the head aloft like a watch-tower so that the Baluchitherium could see its enemies approaching from a distance and thus either escape or stand at bay,…Listen from here · chapter 12, 9:52…other rhinoceros, living or fossil, and enable us to pronounce the Baluchitherium as representing a new branch of the rhinoceros family which may be popularly known as the…Listen from here · chapter 12, 11:55
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