Nakusia

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Nakusia
Fossil range: Early Eocene
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Anthracobunidae
Genus: Nakusia
Ginsburg et al., 1999
Species
  • N. shahrigensis Ginsburg et al., 1999

Nakusia is an extinct genus of an early proboscid from the Early Eocene, discovered in 1999 in the Ghazij formation of Baluchistan, Pakistan.

[edit] References

  • GINSBURG L.; KHADIM HUSSAIN DURRANI; AKHTAR MOHAMMAD KASSI; WELCOMME J.-L., Discovery of a new Anthracobunidae (Tethytheria, Mammalia) from the Lower Eocene lignite of the Kach-Harnai Area in Baluchistan (Pakistan), Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série 2. Sciences de la terre et des planètes (C. r. Acad. sci., Sér. 2, Sci. terre planet.), 1999, vol. 328, no3, pp. 209-213
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