Kharmerungulatum

Kharmerungulatum; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Family:	†Zhelestidae
Genus:	†Kharmerungulatum; Prasad et al., 2007
Species
	†K. vanvaleni Prasad et al., 2007 (type);

Kharmerungulatum is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Intertrappean Beds of Madhya Pradesh, India. Its specific epithet honors Leigh Van Valen. It was originally considered to be one of the earliest known condylarths.,[1] but more recent studies find it to be a zhelestid, part of an assemblage of herbivorous non-placental eutherian mammals also present in Europe, Asia and possibly Africa.[2]

References

Prasad, G.V.R.; Verma, O.; Sahni, A.; Parmar, V. & Khosla, A. (2007). "A Cretaceous Hoofed Mammal from India". Science. 318 (9 NOV 2007): 937. doi:10.1126/science.1149267. PMID 17991854.
James David Archibald · Alexander Olegovich Averianov, Phylogenetic analysis, taxonomic revision, and dental ontogeny of the Cretaceous Zhelestidae (Mammalia: Eutheria), Article · Feb 2012 · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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[Prasad07-1] Prasad, G.V.R.; Verma, O.; Sahni, A.; Parmar, V. & Khosla, A. (2007). "A Cretaceous Hoofed Mammal from India". Science. 318 (9 NOV 2007): 937. doi:10.1126/science.1149267. PMID 17991854.

[2] James David Archibald · Alexander Olegovich Averianov, Phylogenetic analysis, taxonomic revision, and dental ontogeny of the Cretaceous Zhelestidae (Mammalia: Eutheria), Article · Feb 2012 · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society