Mulkrajanops
Appearance
| Mulkrajanops Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | †Brontotheriidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Mulkrajanops Kumar and Sahni, 1985 |
Mulkrajanops is a dubious[1] genus of brontothere endemic to India during the Eocene.
Taxonomy
[edit]Mulkrajanops was named by Kumar and Sahni (1985). It was assigned to Eotitanopinae by Kumar and Sahni (1985);[2] and to Brontotheriidae by Thewissen et al. (2001).[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Mihlbachler, Matthew C. "Species taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the Brontotheriidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (311). American Museum of Natural History. hdl:2246/5913.
- ↑ K. Kumar and A. Sahni. 1985. Eocene mammals from the upper Subathu Group, Kashmir Himalaya, India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(2):153-168
- ↑ J. G. M. Thewissen, E. M. Williams, and S.T. Hussain. 2001. Eocene mammal faunas from northern Indo-Pakistan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(2):347-366