Bharatisiren
| Bharatisiren Temporal range: early Miocene
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| Bharatisiren kachchhensis and Kutchisiren cylindrica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Sirenia |
| Family: | Dugongidae |
| Subfamily: | Dugonginae |
| Genus: | †Bharatisiren Bajpai and Domning, 1997 |
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Bharatisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India during the early Miocene (Aquitanian) period.
Taxonomy
[edit]The type species of Bharatisiren, B. kachchhebsis, was originally named as a species of Metaxytherium, M. kachchhebsis, by Bajpai et al. (1987) from the Aquitanian-age Khari Nadi Formation of western India.[1] Bajpai and Domning (1997) however, judged M. kachchhensis generically distinct enough from the Metaxytherium type species to warrant its own genus, Bharatisiren.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ S. Bajpai, M. P. Singh, and P. Singh. 1987. A new sirenian from the Miocene of Kachchh, western India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 32:20-25
- ^ S. Bajpai and D. P. Domning. 1997. A new dugongine sirenian from the early Miocene of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(1):219-228.
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