Pakotitanops

Taxobox
name = "Pakotitanops"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Perissodactyla
familia = Brontotheriidae
genus = "Pakotitanops"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
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"Pakotitanops" is an obscure genus of brontothere, family Brontotheriidae. The only known species is "Pakotitanops latidentatus", published in an article by Robert M. West in 1980. It is represented only by a few tooth fragments from the middle Eocene Kuldana Formation, in the Ganda Kas area of Pakistan. Because this species is known only from a few tooth fragments it is difficult to compare it to other species to determine if it is indeed a distinct species and to what other species it is mostly closely related. Other brontotheres from Pakistan include "Eotitanops? dayi" and "Mulkrajanops moghliensis". "Pakotitanops latidentatus" is larger than either of these species. The dental fragments are most similar in size and shape to "Dolichorhinus hyognathus", a North American brontothere from the early Uintan land mammal age (middle Eocene), and possibly represents a close Asian relative of "Dolichorhinus".

References

* cite paper
author = Mihlbachler, Matthew Christian
title = Phylogenetic Systematics of the Brontotheriidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)
publisher = Columbia University
date = 2005
version = Ph.D. dissertation
url = http://digitalcommons.libraries.columbia.edu/dissertations/AAI3174856/

* cite journal
first = Johannes G.M.
last = Thewissen
coauthors = Williams, Ellen M., Hussain, S. Taseer
year = 2001
title = Eocene mammal faunas from Northern Indo-Pakistan
journal = Jornal of Vertebrate Paleontology
volume = 21
issue = 2
pages = 347–366
url = http://www.vertpaleo.org/jvp/21-347-366.html
doi = 10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021 [0347:EMFFNI] 2.0.CO;2
format = Dead link|date=May 2008
doilabel = 10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0347:EMFFNI]2.0.CO;2

* cite journal
first = Robert M.
last = West
year = 1980
title = Middle Eocene large mammal assemblage with Tethyan affinities, Ganda Kas region, Pakistan
journal = Journal of Paleontology
volume = 54
pages = 508–533