| Bharatisiren Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Early Miocene, Chattian | |
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| Life restoration of Bharatisiren kachchhensis alongside Kutchisiren cylindrica by Carl Buell | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Sirenia |
| Family: | Dugongidae |
| Subfamily: | Dugonginae |
| Genus: | †Bharatisiren Bajpai and Domning, 1997 |
| Type species | |
| †Bharatisiren kachchhensis Bajpai et al., 1987 | |
| Other Species | |
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†B. indica Bajpai et al.,2006 | |
| Synonyms | |
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†"Metaxytherium" kachchhebsis | |
Bharatisiren is an extinct genus of dugongid sirenian mammal which lived in India during Late Oligocene to Early Miocene period. The type species is B. kachchhensis and the other species is B. indica.
Taxonomy[]
The type species of Bharatisiren was originally named as a species of Metaxytherium (M. kachchhebsis), by Bajpai in the year 1987 from the Aquitanian- age Khari Nadi Formation of western India.[1] Bajpai and Domning in 1997 however, suggested that M. kachchhensis is distinct enough from the Metaxytherium and named a new genus, Bharatisiren.[2]
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.