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Kutchisiren

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Kutchisiren
Temporal range: Miocene, 23.03–15.97 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Subfamily: Dugonginae
Genus: Kutchisiren
Bajpai et al., 2010
Species
  • K. cylindrica Bajpai et al., 2010 (type)

Kutchisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India in Khari Nadi Formation 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 (as a nomen nudum) in 1994, by Das and Basu.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b S. Bajpai; D. P. Domning; D. P. Das; J. Velez-Juarbe; V. P. Mishra (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.