Pilgrimella
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Pilgrimella is an extinct genus (early Eocene
Eocene
The Eocene Epoch, lasting from about 56 to 34 million years ago , is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Palaeocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the...

) of anthracobunid
Anthracobunidae
Anthracobunidae is an extinct family of primitive proboscideans that lived in the early to middle Eocene period.They resemble the later Moeritheriidae in both size and cheek tooth morphology but lack their characteristic tusks. They are known only from fragmentary remains from Eocene deposits of...

 (early proto-elephant condylarth
Condylarth
Condylarthra is an order of extinct placental mammals known primarily from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs. Condylarths are among the most characteristic Paleocene mammals and they illustrate the evolutionary level of the Paleocene mammal fauna....

), ground dwelling grazer with massive molar
Molar (tooth)
Molars are the rearmost and most complicated kind of tooth in most mammals. In many mammals they grind food; hence the Latin name mola, "millstone"....

 cusps aligned in two transverse
Transverse plane
The transverse plane is an imaginary plane that divides the body into superior and inferior parts. It is perpendicular to the coronal and sagittal planes....

 ridges. Remains (teeth) of this animal have been found in the Chorlakki locality, Punjab
Punjab (Pakistan)
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

 province, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 as well as in the Subathu formation in North-West India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. The genus is considered by some paleontologists as a synonym of Anthracobune
Anthracobune
Anthracobune is an extinct genus of an early proboscidean from the middle Eocene of the Upper Kuldana Formation of Kohat, Punjab Province, Pakistan....

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