Another early mammal the expedition discovered was the Baluchitherium. Early fossils pieces had been found of this creature in Baluchistan, hence it’s name, and other skeletal parts were found in Russian Turkestan and named Indricotherium. When Granger and his men had excavated their creature it was determined that the animals were indistinguishable from each other. The animal is thought to have been the largest land mammal ever to walk the earth. Standing almost 17 feet at the shoulder, weighing 30 tons, and with an over-all body length of 24 feet, the animal was a sort of tree-browsing rhinoceros. (Walter Granger was the team paleontologist and second-in-command to Andrews.) |