| Gandakasia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | † Ambulocetidae |
| Genus: | † Gandakasia Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg, 1958 |
| Species: | †G. potens |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gandakasia potens Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg, 1958 [2] | |
Gandakasia is an extinct genus of ambulocetid from Pakistan, that lived in the Eocene epoch. It probably caught its prey near rivers or streams.
Just like Himalayacetus , Gandakasia is only known from a single jaw fragment, making comparisons to other ambulocetids difficult. [3]
The first ambulocetid to be described, Gandakasia was not initially recognized as a cetacean. [4]
Gandakasia probably inhabited a freshwater niche similar to the pakicetids. [3]
