Bharatisiren

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
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
B. kachchhensis (Bajpai et al., 1987) (type)

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]