Lammidhania

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iLammidhania
Fossil range: Early to Middle Eocene
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Anthracobunidae
Genus: Lammidhania
Gingerich, 1977
Species
  • L. wardi (Pilgrim, 1940)

Lammidhania is an extinct genus of an early proboscid from the Early to Middle Eocene, discovered in 1940 in the Chorlakki locality of the Punjab province, Pakistan.

It is the smallest known anthracobunid, primitive amphibious ancestors of the proto-elephants Moeritheriidae.

[edit] References

  • N.A. Wells and P.D. Gingerich. 1983. Review of Eocene Anthracobunidae (Mammalia, Proboscidea) with a new genus and species, Jozaria palustris, from the Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan). Contrib. Mus. Pal. Univ. Michigan 26(7): 117-139.
  • P. D. Gingerich. 1977. A small collection of fossil vertebrates from the middle Eocene Kuldana and Kohat Formations of Punjab (Pakistan). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 24(18): 190-203.
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