Ishatherium
| Ishatherium Temporal range: early Eocene | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla (?) |
| Family: | †Anthracobunidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Ishatherium Sahmi and Kumar, 1980 |
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Ishatherium is an extinct genus of ungulate from the early Eocene of the Subathu formation in northwestern India.
It is only known from a partial upper molar and was formerly classified as a sirenian. It was placed in Anthracobunidae in 1983[1] but this placement was rejected in a 2014 cladistic analysis.[2]
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.
- ↑ Cooper, L. N.; Seiffert, E. R.; Clementz, M.; Madar, S. I.; Bajpai, S.; Hussain, S. T.; Thewissen, J. G. M. (2014-10-08). "Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan Are Stem Perissodactyls". PLoS ONE 9 (10): e109232. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109232. PMID 25295875.
- 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.