Bharatisiren
Temporal range: early Miocene
Bharatisiren kachchhensis and Kutchisiren cylindrica
Scientific classification Edit this 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)

Bharatisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India during the early Miocene (Aquitanian) period.

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]

References

  1. 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
  2. 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.


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