Mulkrajanops

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Mulkrajanops
Temporal range: Eocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family:† Brontotheriidae
Genus:† Mulkrajanops
Kumar and Sahni, 1985

Mulkrajanops is a dubious [1] genus of brontothere endemic to India during the Eocene living from 55.8 to 48.6 mya, existing for approximately 7.2 million years. [2]

Taxonomy

Mulkrajanops was named by Kumar and Sahni (1985). It was assigned to Eotitanopinae by Kumar and Sahni (1985); [3] and to Brontotheriidae by Thewissen et al. (2001). [4]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ PaleoBiology Database: Mulkrajanops, basic info
  3. ↑ K. Kumar and A. Sahni. 1985. Eocene mammals from the upper Subathu Group, Kashmir Himalaya, India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(2):153-168
  4. ↑ 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


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