Ishatherium

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Ishatherium
Fossil range: Early Eocene
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Anthracobunidae
Genus: Ishatherium
Sahmi and Kumar, 1980
Species
  • I. subathuensis Sahmi and Kumar, 1980

Ishatherium is an extinct genus of an early proboscid from the Early Eocene of the Subathu formation in Northwestern India.

It is only known from a partial upper molar and was formely classified as a Sirenia.

[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.
  • A. Sahni and K. Kumar. 1980. Lower Eocene Sirenia, Ishatherium subathuensis, gen. et sp. nov. from the type area, Subathu Formation, Subathu, Simla Himalayas, H.P. Journal of the Paleontological Society of India, 23: 132-135.
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