Kutchisiren
Appearance
Kutchisiren Temporal range: Miocene,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | Dugongidae |
Subfamily: | Dugonginae |
Genus: | †Kutchisiren Bajpai et al., 2010 |
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Kutchisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India in Khari Nadi Formation during the Miocene period.[1] It was named by S. Bajpai, D. P. Domning, D. P. Das, J. Velez-Juarbe, and V. P. Mishra in 2010, and the type species is Kutchisiren cylindrica. It was originally named Kotadasiren gracilis (as a nomen nudum) in 1994, by Das and Basu.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b S. Bajpai; D. P. Domning; D. P. Das; J. Velez-Juarbe; V. P. Mishra (2010). "A new fossil sirenian (Mammalia, Dugonginae) from the Miocene of India". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 258 (1): 39–50. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0082.