Khirtharia dayi Pilgrim 1940 (even-toed ungulate)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Raoellidae

Full reference: G.E. Pilgrim. 1940. Middle Eocene Mammals from North-west India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Series B 110:127-152

Belongs to Khirtharia according to J. M. Theodor et al. 2007

See also Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958, Pilgrim 1940, Sahni and Khare 1973 and Thewissen et al. 2001

Sister taxa: Khirtharia aurea, Khirtharia inflatus

Type specimen: British Museum M15796, a set of teeth. Its type locality is Lammidhan, which is in a Lutetian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Kuldana Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Eocene of India (1 collection), Pakistan (5)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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