| Kutchisiren Temporal range: Early Miocene, 23.03–15.97Ma | |
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| Life restoration by Carl Buell | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Sirenia |
| Family: | Dugongidae |
| Subfamily: | Dugonginae |
| Genus: | †Kutchisiren Bajpai, Domning, Das, Velez-Juarbe, and Mishra, 2010 |
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Kutchisiren is an extinct genus of dugongid sirenian mammal which lived in Khari Nadi Formation of India 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" in 1994, by Das and Basu, as a nomen nudum.[1]
Reference[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 (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.