Lammidhania

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Lammidhania
Temporal range: Early to Middle Eocene, 52–50  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: Anthracobunidae
Genus: Lammidhania
Gingerich, 1977
Species
  • L. wardiPilgrim, 1940

Lammidhania is an extinct genus of anthracobunids, which lived from the early to middle Eocene period. Its fossil remains were discovered in 1940 in the Chorlakki locality of the Punjab province of Pakistan.

It is the smallest known anthracobunid, and was formerly classified with proboscideans. Cooper et al. (2014) regard most specimens referred to the genus as belonging to Anthracobune . [1]

References

  1. 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. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j9232C. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109232 . PMC   4189980 . PMID   25295875.