Bharatisiren
Bharatisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India during the early Miocene (Aquitanian) period.
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Taxonomy
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]
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References
- 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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