Bharatisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India during the early Miocene (Aquitanian) period.
Bharatisiren Temporal range: early Miocene | |
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Bharatisiren kachchhensis and Kutchisiren cylindrica | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | Dugongidae |
Subfamily: | Dugonginae |
Genus: | †Bharatisiren Bajpai and Domning, 1997 |
Species | |
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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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